Quotes About Injustice

There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.

There is no such thing as justice - in or our of court.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and if no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

For the mistletoe of prejudice thrives nowhere better than on the economic oak.

The generations of lives, experiences, and voices of marginalized and silenced Americans offer an array of diverse interpretations of U.S. history that have largely gone unheard, unacknowledged, and unrewarded. Without their perspectives, we are presented with an incomplete and incongruent story that is at best a disservice to the historical record and at worst a means of maintaining an unjust status quo.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

More than one in four U.S. presidents were involved in human trafficking and slavery.

The acquittal of O.J. Simpson shows what can happen when you try to frame a guilty person.

Porque há o direito ao grito. Então eu grito.

If we must die, let it not be like hogsHunted and penned in an inglorious spot.

The Europeans fight to exterminate us and call it civilizing us.

Then the voice in your head silently tells you to take your foot off your throat because just getting along shouldn't be an ambition.

Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word.

How difficult is it for one body to feel the injustice wheeled at another? Are the tensions, the recognitions, the disappointments, and the failures that exploded in the riots too foreign?

She has grown up, another decides, as if responding to the injustice of racism is childish and her previous demonstration of emotion was free-floating and detached from any external actions by others.

It is the White Man who creates the black man. But it is the black man who creates.

I suppose if all I had to do was bleach my hair blond to stop white supremacists from wanting to burn crosses in my yard, I might consider blondness myself. Certainly, the forty-fifth president and his family understand the importance of the blond signifier in their campaign to Make America Great Again.

Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word. (Ralph Ellison)

Now that there is no calling out of injustice, no yelling, no cursing, no finger wagging or head shaking, the media decides to take up the mantle when on December 12, 2012, two weeks after Serena is named WTA Player of the Year, the Dane Caroline Wozniacki, a former number-one player, imitates Serena by stuffing towels in her top and shorts, all in good fun, at an exhibition match. Racist? CNN wants to know if outrage is the proper response.

Teju Cole writes, "There are no refugees, only fellow citizens whose rights we have failed to acknowledge.

I don't think white people identify themselves as white Americans. They think their perspective is objective. They don't realize they're always invested in the advancement of white people.

When the boys turned the corner was inflammation in the air already forming knuckles as they pummeled the body being kicked and beaten until knocked unconscious his right eye closed shut blood refusing to clot flowing from both ears were they hearing their own breathing their own ears allowing their blows to take custody of this body fallen against the hardness of the concrete floor leveled without give?

underscore the difficulty inherent in any attempt by black artists to metabolize real rage.