Quotes About Injustice

An oppressed people will always rise.

Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!

I find it really unique that the black community, who has been oppressed and is still oppressed, can find a way to oppress themselves, and ourselves, within it.

I am a firm believer that an oppressed society gives birth to crime.

If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

America is built on the labors of the oppressed.

Party anthems and party things aren't what people need when they're the most oppressed.

It's not enough to just say 'I'm not racist' because you're not a purveyor of overt racism. If you benefit from the system, knowing that people are being oppressed and affected by it, then you are racist.

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

What's unique about America is that the country itself was built upon oppression, it's in the very foundation.

I grew up learning firsthand what it was like to flee communism and oppression.

Whether it's microaggressions or blatant racism, it's always been a fight. We've been fighting oppression for 400 years and it will continue to be a fight.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

The forces of violence and oppression don't care about the innocent.

I have chosen to kneel because I simply cannot stand for the kind of oppression this country is allowing against its own people.

Systemically, there hasn't been an oppression more overt and long-lasting than economic oppression against black people and minorities in this country.

The more that I learn about what's going on, it's really hard to ignore the oppression that people are actually going through.

If we're saying there are incidents of oppression in this country, systematically or individually in this country, I don't think saying, 'Well, in country X, Y or Z it's 10 times worse' is making things any better. I think that may be true, but why can't we improve?

If you think about it, hip-hop came out of nothing. It was a response to oppression.

Because I have seen oppression, I know what it looks like.