Quotes About Injustice

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.

You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.

Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.

The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor.

I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.

If you don't take care of the disenfranchised and outcasts of your city, they will come knocking on your door one day with revenge and bitterness

It's important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country.

As long as poverty & hunger is prevalent in any continent or country, then the world at large is never safe.

As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.

Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.

We know in our hearts that none of us get ahead when some of us are stuck with second-class status.

We aspire to be equal opportunity, but all across the country where a student is born, their race, their class affect where they end up.

So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.

You'd like to think we're past certain things, the way we treat people. I thought we were at a time where you love your neighbor as yourself. But as I've studied history - it hasn't repeated itself necessarily, but it's dressed a little different and is acting the same.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

I am not a philosopher, only frustrated by the development of the world we live in - and too stupid to keep my mouth shut when I see injustice.

I know people think I'm a stupid little street queen out there begging for change cause there's nothing else she knows how to do.

I really do believe in clearing samples, and I believe that people should be compensated for them, but the laws are just so stupid.

I'm very much inspired by things that anger me. If I see bigotry, stupidity, or injustice on the news, I'm inspired to find a way to make it into something comedic and relatable. Anger inspires me. Stupidity inspires me. My family inspires me. My accountant inspires me. Everything and anything, really.

My style is not specific to the antebellum South, but it's heavily inspired by the Jim Crow era.

I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.'

I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.