Quotes About Injustice

Es ist so eingerichtet, daß nicht nur die, die Unrecht erdulden müssen, auch die, die Unrecht tun, ihres Lebens nicht froh werden. Überhaupt frage ich mich, ob die Lust, andere Leben zu zerstören, nicht daher kommt, daß man am eigenen Leben so wenig Lust und Freude hat.

You're blindly following a tradition that says because women didn't leave behind voluminous records of their thoughts and deeds, then they didn't have any thoughts and deeds - they were just standing on the sidelines while history was made by men. Just because a woman didn't have a vote doesn't mean that she didn't have an informed opinion. It doesn't mean she was incapable of thinking or acting.

Marx - L'ouvrier est ainsi triplement aliéné : - Par rapport à lui-même (il a vendu sa force de travail au capitaliste) ; - Par rapport à la marchandise (le produit de son travail appartient à un autre, le capitaliste) ; - Par rapport au capitaliste lui-même (le salariat est une forme substitutive de l'esclavage dans laquelle les individus ne sont pas juridiquement la propriété des maîtres).

This is why we can't leave the making of laws to men. They result in travesties of injustice that unfairly burden the poor. And women. Those high and mighty aristocrats, in their black robes and powdered wigs—they have no idea.

he doesn't approve but will deal with it later, "is that what they're doing? Asking for handouts?" "They just want to be treated fairly," a kid in the back says. "But what does that mean? And where does it end?" another kid asks. As others join the conversation, Megan turns in her seat and squints at Molly, as if noticing her for the first time. "An Indian, huh. That's cool," she whispers. "Like Molly Molasses, right?

We took away their country and their means of support. It was for this and against this that they made war. Could anyone expect less?

And though they were called savages, even a prominent English general, Philip Sheridan, had to admit, "We took away their country and their means of support. It was for this and against this that they made war. Could anyone expect less?

Luego un patán mexicano le hizo un bombo, y mírala ahora, es criada. —Él era dominicano —murmura Molly. —Da lo mismo. Esos ilegales son todos iguales, ¿no? Molly

Let us kill all the lawyers!

Around the world, a woman's body is still very much a battlefield and hundreds of thousands of women bear the invisible wounds of war.

Rape is as much of a weapon of war as the machete, club, or Kalashnikov.

He wanted to be angry, his mission was was to be angry, and he had nothing to be angry about; the world would not let him rave, this was the great injustice he suffered from.

Henny "was one of those women who secretly symphathize with all women against all men; life was a rotten deal, with men holding all the aces.

Henny was one of those women who secretly sympathize with all women against all men; life was a rotten deal, with men holding all the aces.

He was incapable of nursing an injustice which would cost him good living to repay, an evil thought which it would undo him to give back, or even sorrow in his bosom; and tragedy itself could not worm its way by any means into his heart.

the world would not let him rave, this was the great injustice he suffered from: he stalked up and down being angry, in futility;

God, what we women have to put up with; and I'm not even allowed to complain.

La psychanalyse et la sociologie ne prennent pas en compte l'oppression des femmes. Ne la prenant pas en compte, elles la reprennent nécessairement à leur compte : elles l'intègrent comme un donné.

The nineteenth-century German missionary Sigismund Koelle asked over 140 ex-slaves how they had been taken. Almost 20 percent of them told him that family or friends had given them up.

Es una defensa clásica en los sistemas totalitarios: todos los verdugos afirman estar aterrorizados. Tal vez en parte sea cierto. El torturador puede tener miedo, pero tiene elección. El prisionero sólo tiene miedo

If oppression produced saints, we'd want everyone to be oppressed.

I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore, without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor.

What social justice requires, King assumes, cannot be discerned in the abstract from the safe distance of a policy analyst or an academic theorist. It can only be found by looking at the actual, embodied suffering of the victims of oppression and injustice, and questioning the structural arrangements that perpetuate their suffering.

I know there was nothing anyone could do. But they were taking away an 86-year-old grandmother to a horrible death, and the village where she had lived all her life, where everybody loved her, had just looked on. The only thing that anyone had had to say was, 'Mrs. Bloch, don't be afraid...