Quotes About Injustice

because white men can't police their imagination black people are dying

Patricia Williams has pointed out in The Alchemy of Race and Rights: "The cold game of equality staring makes me feel like a thin sheet of glass…. I could force my presence, the real me contained in those eyes, upon them, but I would be smashed in the process." Interviewed

Charlotte: Racism exists outside of reason. Black people have never been human. Charles: That is so hopeless. Charlotte: Go further into that hopelessness, and then we can really begin to see each other.

Because white men can't police their imagination, black men are dying.

in the first two decades of the nineteenth century, the indigenous land base shrank by 600,000 square miles, an area roughly the size of Alaska.10

Native peoples imbibed all of the vices of U.S. citizens, they claimed, while slaves absorbed their virtues.

The ultimate tragedy of Birmingham was not the brutality of the bad people, but the silence of the good people.

Money attracts money like a magnet. It doesn't trickle down. It is sucked up.

The modern day dinosaurs are those that prey on helpless and defenseless civilians and embezzle from people's taxes that take away the lifeblood of any nation.

There is no fair play in an unbalanced platform. But there is something that you can do about it.

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

history is "little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

The girls had to kneel all night on the parade ground waiting to see one of their number punished

This was a strong point if you thought that Annan's disapproval of poverty and racism was ever likely to diminish either of those things.

There is no crueller tyranny," said Montesquieu, "than the one exercised in the shadow of the law, and with the colours of justice.

Without injustices, the name of justice would mean what?

The kosmos works by harmony of tensions, like lyre and bow. Good and evil are one. On the one hand God sees all as well, fair, and good; on the other hand a human being sees injustice here, justice there. Justice in our minds is strife. We cannot help but see war makes us as we are.

We are all Expressionists part of the time. Sometimes we just want to scream loudly at injustice, or to stand up and be counted. These are noble motives, but any serious revolutionist must often deprive himself of the pleasures of self-expression. He must judge his actions by their ultimate effects on institutions.

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The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.

Darwin was led to his agnostic naturalism as much by the misery which he observed in the world as by the facts which scientific investigation brought under his notice. There was too much strife and injustice in the world for him to believe in providence and a predetermined goal. A world so full of cruelty and pain he could not reconcile with the omniscience, the omnipotence, the goodness of God.

The principal enemy of these entrepreneurs is the existing legal s}'stem, which excludes them.

If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country.

In the trinity of skin, bones, and brown water, men and women lose all difference.