Quotes About Injustice

Holocaust? Ninety million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos -- what's to complain about?

As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

The slave-breeders and slave-traders are a small, odious, and detested class among you; and yet in politics they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters as you are the master of your own negroes.

That perfect liberty they sigh for -- the liberty of making slaves of other people -- Jefferson never thought of, their own fathers never thought of, they never thought of themselves, a year ago. How fortunate for them they did not sooner become sensible of their great misery!

Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of freedom. And the promise being made, must be kept.

I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist; and perhaps the best way for it to come to an end peaceably is for it to exist for a length of time. But I say that the spread and strengthening and perpetuation of it are an entirely different proposition. There we should in every way resist it as a wrong, treating it as a wrong, with the fixed idea that it must and will come to an end.

No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle.

You've been a cop long enough to know that sometimes bad things happen to good people. It's out of your control. You gotta let go or it will drive you nuts.

outrage, anger, a keen sense of injustice. Contrary to popular belief, those kinds of emotions are not a cop's best friend, particularly if you're female and trying to maintain some semblance of credibility.

I'm telling you, the lunatics are really running the asylum when it comes to the criminal courts

There were days when my colleagues and I were sure there was nothing left that one human being could do to another that could shock us. And then, without fail, something else came along to prove us wrong

There were times when the light of the moon had gone out and she felt a great loneliness. It wasn't for herself. It was for what had happened to the grasses of their land, their waters, not just the massacre there, the slavery, but the killing of the ocean.

Tu ne tenais pas de discours grandiloquents sur la fraternité, mais tu portais toujours une attention aux obscurs, aux vulnérables, pas uniquement parce que toi-même tu te rangeais parmi ceux-là, mais parce que les puissants pleins de certitude, ceux qui veulent à tout prix attirer la lumière sur eux, te faisaient craindre que ce monde ne devienne vraiment irrespirable.

Those who have privileges inevitably hold on to them, and hold tight, no matter how marginal the advantage involved, until compelled to bow to superior power of one sort or another.

So sad," Victor said, "the things people will do to each other." Dan sat back against the seat cushion and let out a sharp breath.

I don't feel like playing anymore—all because of that stupid announcement. "Express your gratitude," they'd said. What they take: our rice, our language, our names. What they give: little rubber balls. I can't feel grateful about such a bad deal.

The Japanese made a lot of new laws. One of the laws was that no Korean could be the boss of anything.

It appals us that the West can desire, extract and claim ownership of our ways of knowing, our imagery, the things we create and produce, and then simultaneously reject the people who created and developed those ideas and seek to deny them further opportunities to be creators of their own culture and own nations.

There are numerous oral stories which tell of what it means, what it feels like, to be present while your history is erased before your eyes, dismissed as irrelevant, ignored or rendered as the lunatic ravings of drunken old people

Imperialism still hurts, still destroys, and is reforming itself constantly

You are treated with less courtesy than other people are. You are treated with less respect than other people are. You receive poorer service than other people at restaurants or stores. People act as if they think you are not smart. People act as if they are afraid of you. People act as if they think you are dishonest. People act as if they're better than you are. You are called names or insulted. You are threatened or harassed.

the denial of racial bias can be so extreme that no one believes you even when you have the evidence.

What the German has done to the Jew in Europe, we are doing to the Jap in the Pacific.

I'm losing what i don't deserve..