Quotes About Injustice

In all liberation struggles it is the common people who bathe in the fire of oppression.

I had seen the poor, the meek and the modest, the young, the brave and the idealistic - all those, in fact, who always are too easily enchanted by high-sounding phrases - giving their lives and their futures in order that the powerful might have more power, the rich grow richer, the old remain in comparative security.

Leave it to the Russians to have an angel gulag.

What did your last slave die of?

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

Terrorism and greed were the watchwords of my time. The world had learned to be cynical.

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

Why don't they let us explain who we are?' Derin protested 'It's not fair judging us like that without giving us a chance to speak' Marna laughed mirthlessly. 'Do you think that would help?' she responded. 'The face of fear has neither eyes nor ears. It is blind and deaf to all but its own terrors.

Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.

Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.

The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.

What right had they to make me suffer like that?

I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.

To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

I believe that if we had would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - IS innately disruptive of "business as usual." That is WHY it is effective.