Quotes About Injustice

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.

It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood.

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

...Poetic injustice...having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ...are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world.

I hate when a show has an age limit. Like a little tiny child is standing outside, like, 'Hey, I wanted to go but I couldn't.' That sucks.

He's 19 years of age, ... He's a fiery character and competitive. I think maybe when he sees things that are a bit of an injustice against him then he reacts like that.

I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen

History is full of instances of people who challenged the mighty forces of evil and they were not only fighting a lonely battle but were left alone to die.

I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth.

White people who wished to think well of themselves did not use the language of racial insult in front of black people. But the problem for us white people, as we finally had to understand, was that we could not be selectively complicit. To be complicit at all, even thoughtlessly by custom, was to be complicit in the whole extent and reach of the injustice. It is hard for customary indifference to utstick itself from the abominations to which it tacitly consents.

XXII. The key to peaceableness is continuous practice. It is wrong to suppose that we can exploit and impoverish the poorer countries, while arming them and instructing them in the newest means of war, and then reasonably expect them to be peaceable.

By their ignorance people enfranchise their exploiters.

when the atrocities a person has lived through are passed over in silence for lack of any trace or archive, paying tribute to someone would be a hoax. How do you convey Africa's silences?" Then

Who's to say? But he didn't deserve to die.

She is the epitome of injustice, is my mistress. I never sulk, I am no glutton, and at that time I was barely thirty years of age, although to a fourteen-year-old anyone above twenty is an ancient, and I admit that, when it comes to food, I do have the refined tastes of a connoisseur.

Wading sloughs of flesh these helpless wander, Treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter.

Ah! he would have found it out fast enough if she had been nice-looking. The ugly women have a bad time of it in this world; let's hope it will be made up to them in another.