Quotes About Injustice

Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return

I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.

Colonies like the Carolina settlement included the right to own African people in their charters. Early in colonial America, some poor whites worked without wages as indentured servants. The practice died out, however, and indentured servants eventually earned their freedom. Colonial law regarded African men and women as chattel, literally "movable property" like a cow or a wagon.

To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

Whoever suffers from the malady of being unable to endure any injustice, must never look out of the window, but stay in his room with the door shut. He would also do well, perhaps, to throw away his mirror.

Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.

Shoeless Joe became a symbol of the tyranny of the powerful over the powerless. The name Kenesaw Mountain Landis became synonymous with the Devil.

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one.

You could be disqualified for a job [at Harvard] if you were either smart or Jewish or Keynesian. So what chance did this smart, Jewish, Keynesian have?

There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

If you can't go to secondary school, the boys get to go and the girls don't, you're locked into a cycle of poverty, because you don't have a chance.

The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.

Heroes are not made. They are born out of circumstances and rise to the occasion when their spirit can no longer coexist with the hypocrisy of injustice to others.

To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor.

In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.

Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.

As a world leader who refused to accept injustice, Nelson Mandela's courage helped change our entire world

In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.