Quotes About Injustice

The kings are always fighting," she said. "All they want is more land, more power. They tax the common people to starvation and force them to fight in their armies.

Write our story, too. For always we've been pushed into corners, trivialized, misunderstood, blamed, forgotten—or maligned and used as cautionary tales.

I've done nothing wrong - nothing except follow my heart. But the world is cruel to women who love.

My fault my fault. A refrain so many women the world over have been taught to sing.

Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over.

In that year, I came to question everything I had believed in before. The only thing I never gave up on was the conviction that there can be no concession in the face of tyranny and oppression.

Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it. For me and the girls from my village, horror is a disease and we are sick with it.

A girl like me gets stopped at immigration.

I thought there'd be some black people." "Hitler will only fight them in separate units. He's a snob.

Some aweful things happened to a Negro kid named Emmett Till, and I was right in the middle of it,smack in the heart of crazy, senseless hatred.

Does anyone in this room have it?" "No, Chris, no one here has it." "How do you know?" "Because the mark was dark skin. Negroes are the descendants of Cain." I didn't have my civil-rights sensibilities yet, but I was starting to get a bad feeling about God....

Man, what kind of a fucked-up world is this? You should have to be a lot more than decent to be a kid's hero.

No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.

In the same way that it makes sense for the airport security screeners to give my father extra scrutiny every time he flies because his skin is brown and his first name is Muhammad?

Holes by Louis Sachar

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.

Don't fuck yourself waiting for fair. Understand? Listening? You will fuck yourself waiting for fair.

The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan

If you're black, you got to look at America a little bit different. You got to look at America like the uncle who paid for you to go to college, but molested you.

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.

If you're black, you got to look at America a little bit different. You got to look at America like the uncle who paid for you to go to college, but who molested you.

You're tired of hearing about racism? Imagine how fucking exhausting it is living it." ~ Jon Stewart

The seedy single-room-occupancy hotels and low-rent apartment buildings in that neighborhood were like vending machines filled with victims.