Quotes About Injustice

Nothing is more demoralizing than to be wronged and then to be told that one's injury is an illusion. To be betrayed by the central pillars of society—government, employer, university—leaves a lasting bitterness and alienation. Furthermore, unlike nonwhites, who have well-funded organizations that spring to the defense of alleged victims, the disappearance of white solidarity means that a white man is entirely on his own.870*

The president of Harvard changed admissions rules to keep Jews out

How many little kids were being orphaned or killed, right that minute, while I was sitting there watching TV?

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition, Inspector.

Just because of an unusual genetic abnormality, Hollywood thinks it can portray us as dysfunctional social pariahs. Ask yourself this: Have you ever been, or know anyone who has ever been, a victim of albino crime?" The protest follows hot on the heels of last week's demonstrations when Colombians and men with ponytails complained of being unrelentingly portrayed as drug dealers. —Extract from The Mole, July 31, 2003

L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers.

He was an abomination precisely because they saw his humanity, but degraded it and would not recognize it.

There are neither good or bad colonialist: there are colonialists.

Homine imperito nunquam quidquam injustius. [There is nothing more unfair than an ignoramus.]

Let's say that you have this mystical right to cut my legs off. But the right to ridicule me afterwards because I am a cripple — no, that I think you haven't got. And that's the right you hold most dearly, isn't it? You must be able to despise the people you exploit.

All that evil needs to triumph is the silence of good men« (»Alles, was das Böse braucht, um zu triumphieren, ist das Schweigen der guten Menschen«).

We're slaves, not idiots. That's all you have to understand.

Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.

Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned; it was a conspiracy of ignorance.

When I was born, my mother dressed me as a boy because she could not afford to feed any more daughters. By the mystic laws of gender and economics, it ruins a peasant to place half a bowl of figs in front of his daughter, while his son may gorge on the whole tree, burn it for firewood and piss on the stump, and still be reckoned a blessing to his father.

Only humans can know what it means to strip a human being of being human.

Hox is a racing word: it means to hamstring a horse not so brutally that she can't walk but cleverly so that she can't run. Society hoxes women and pretends that God, Nature or the genepool designed them lame.

The English are serial racists--one group gets accepted, another group becomes the scapegoat.

I wish to know, said Claire. God help us, muttered Byron. I wish TO KNOW why all that ails mankind must be the fault of womankind? Women are weak, said Byron. Or perhaps men need to believe it is so, I said.

Everyone knows a homosexual is no closer to being a woman than a rhinoceros.

I could see in her a piece of the bright hope I once had in myself and it made me sour and angry. It made me feel sorry for her too. I wanted to take both her hands in mine, look her in the eye, and let her see that the world isn't interested in a little black girl's dreams.

Could so many straightforward ordinary lives suddenly become men to kill and women to rape?

Toplum kad?nlar? topal b?rak?r ve onlar? sakat yaratm?? olan sanki Tanr?, DoÄŸa ya da genetik faktörlermiÅŸ gibi davran?r.