Quotes About Injustice

If she gave yo now, without confronting Hal, it would all have been for nothing. He would continue to live in a world without consequences, a world where men like him hurt girls like her, then shook them off like they were dust underneath their shoes.....

in a world where being born female meant spending years of your life at risk, and the rest of it invisible, existing as prey or barely existing at all.

She would look this other Diana in the eyes and then she'd decide what she would do, how she could confront Hal without hurting some poor, blameless woman, in a world where being born female meant spending years of your life at risk, and the rest of it invisible, existing as prey or barely existing at all.

But if this prosperity couldn't be attributed to their own personal merit, then by the same token the refugees weren't to blame for their reduced circumstances. Things might have turned out the other way around. For a moment, this thought opens its jaws wide, displaying its frightening teeth.

Thus does unjust suspicion follow even the most blameless for, as the poet says, Who shall escape calumny? Who, indeed!

It could be done with a little good will all round," he continued, "and nine men out of every ten would be the better off. But they won't even let you explain. Their newspapers shout you down. It's such a damned fine world for the few: never mind the many.

The publishers of Superman comic books, National Periodical Publications [later DC Comics], killed my days, murdered my nights, choked my happiness, strangled my career. I consider National's executives economic murderers, money-mad monsters. I, Jerry Siegel, the co-originator of Superman, put a curse of the Superman movie!

What else would you expect? Whites never go inside black's homes. Much less inside their thoughts and feelings. And blacks are just as ignorant of whites. What white kid could hate blacks after spending five minutes in the Beale's house? And what bleak kid could hat whites after answering Mrs. Pickwell's dinner whistle? But the East Enders stayed in the east and the West Enders stayed in the west, and the less they knew about each other, the more they invented.

Perhaps the world would soon become one vast incinerator for burning people.

No big corporation would promote a hunchback.

They're all blackface caricatures.

People can handle an unjust world; it's when the world becomes arbitrary and inexplicable that order breaks down.

I fell in love with my country—its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. . . . It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class. —Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

All people, except this rich cream, living and scraping and fighting and dying, and for what, nothing, the cold millions with no chance in this world.

People are starving, and this is their solution, he eventually said. They turn victims into criminals. They aim guns at people who can't shoot back.

Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.

Women inevitably have to work a little bit harder to be heard. Hollywood is disgustingly sexist. It's crazy.

We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.

You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house.

Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!

My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

For the same work, dudes get paid more.