Quotes About Injustice

If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power.

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

The power of evil men lives on the cowardice of the good.

If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.

We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.

Environmental challenges have the power to deny equality of opportunity and hold back the progress of communities.

Rising inequality isn't about who has the knowledge; it's about who has the power.

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one another and what power is all about.

If as an environmentalist we are against anything... it is against the arrogance of power and the most obcene ways it shows up, which is in greed.

The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.

What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

Those in power write the history while those who suffer write the songs.

If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.