Quotes About Injustice

It is on this basis that the case against racism and the case against sexism must both ultimately rest; and it is in accordance with this principle that the attitude that we may call "speciesism," by analogy with racism, must also be condemned.

I couldn't care less about politics, the culture wars. My only interest is to get people to care about Darfurs and Rwandas.

They talk about this thing in the head; what do they call it? ["Intellect," whispered someone nearby.] That's it. What's that got to do with women's rights or Negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?3

As Brigid Brophy has put it, it remains true that it is cruel to break people's legs, even if the statement is made by someone in the habit of breaking people's arms.

It is not believed that a people capable of inventing the genre of oral painting could have spawned the viaduct killer, and in any case no ghetto resident is permitted access to any other area of the city. (A Short Guide To The City)

OS QUATRO CANTORES Pobre Marat em tua casa cercada estás adiantado um século de nós Enquanto tine a lâmpada lá fora e tuas palavras se decompõe escorre-se em sangue toda a verdade que aprendeste

In a civil war… every side is wrong. It's hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.

Anti-cat is one jump away from anti-Semitism.

Dreadful low-class jingoistic racist invectives, unworthy of me.

Back to Germany," one of the cops said, surveying him. "I'm an American," Frank Frink said. "You're a Jew," the cop said.

You stupid bastard, does what you're fighting for look so real now? Skin pigment. What a laugh! Why not eye color? Too bad nobody ever thought of that. It cuts it a little finer, but basically it's the same thing.

And after all, they had been successful with the Jews and Gypsies and Bible Students.

It requires the greatest kind of wisdom, she thought, to know when to apply injustice. How can justice fall victim, even, to what is right?

So you send other people into the camps, he thought, to get your husband out. It sounds like a typical police deal. It's probably the truth

quando si vive dentro, al sicuro, e si guarda fuori, e il muro è percorso da corrente elettrica e le guardie sono armate, perché mai si dovrebbe pensare alle sofferenze altrui?

Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.

The children will come to no harm. Except for the older ones. Like that poor kid down there. Mr. Scoresby, that is the way this world works. And if you want to put an end to cruelty and injustice, you must take me farther on. I have a job to do. Seems to me— Lee said, feeling for the words, seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed.

Why do they do these things to children, Pan? Do they all hate children so much, that they want to tear them apart like this? Why do they do it?

Seems to me –" Lee said, feeling for the words – "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed.

He showed me things I had never seen, cruelties and horrors all committed in the name of the Authority, all designed to destroy the joys and the truthfulness of life.

Me parece que el sitio adecuado para plantar cara a la crueldad es aquel donde uno la encuentra, del mismo modo que es buen sitio para prestar ayuda aquel donde uno se topa con alguien necesitado.

Ik weet wat de Dienst Kinderbescherming is,' zei Alice. Malcolm had zijn mond vol eten, maar wist uit te brengen: 'Wat dan?' Haar dæmon zei: 'Klootzakken,' en gromde weer.

There was always something about our family, and I don't mean color--there was something about us that impeded you. You think like a prisoner. You do, Coleman Brutus. You're white as snow and you think like a slave.

Great artists, as history reveals, have been harshly persecuted time and again by the frightened and ill-educated