Quotes About Injustice

And almost never young men of any race, even though they can and do go missing too.

But the only thing more certain than death and taxes is bullies.

Women are always, somehow, to blame for the acts of men; that's more true now than it ever has been.

A woman's body, said the world, was a prison in which her mind must wither.

Yet what does harm," she said, "is not what truly merits a man's anger, but what he seizes on instead.

What right have they to disdain a martyr?

What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from their moorings; men were free when they were cast out of their homes—free to starve, free to perish of cold and hunger.

What horrifying torture this poor man must have endured. Out of a wise man they have made a miserable bundle of flesh and bones.

They'll use a pair of clubs to beat the spades

I hate violence. I hate injustice more. I just want to be a fry cook, but the world demands more from me than eggs and pancakes.

They spent billions on the problem, with no effect other than to greatly enrich their friends and create more homeless people.

Who in all the world ever stands up to really outrageous evil? Not many. Most people satisfy themselves by strongly opposing little evils, like hurtful words and unpopular ideas and gluttony, where the risk of angering violent people is low.

I believed suddenly not merely in evil as a necessary antagonist in movies and books—bad guys and boogeymen—not merely in evil as the consequence of parental rejection or parental indulgence or social injustice, but in Evil as a presence alive in the world.

grossly evil people or very stupid people—or evil stupid people—are in charge of almost everything, and the good smart people are afraid to oppose them because the evil people are vicious and the stupid people are too clueless to see where all this is going, and the people who are both evil and stupid, well, they're the worst of all.

Criminals are as absurd as they are evil.

The world's crawling with people who don't respect anyone or anything, but we're supposed to respect them, have compassion for the killers because they've been so poorly treated by life.

when darkness often passed for light, the just and the unjust wore the same face.

This is an age when freedoms are fragile. Those in power speak loudly, ceaselessly about compassion but rarely exhibit any.

Shacket has been in a foul mood since leaving Cedar City. Mile by mile, the arid Mojave leaches out of him what little human kindness has not been drained away by the endless injustices he has suffered.

I think the past might be our future, that we're busy laying the groundwork for new Dachaus, new Auschwitzes, all in the name of compassion, progress, justice, prosperity.

The free kitchen, after-school programs, keeping porn out of libraries—all that needs done, but it's dealing with the aftermath, not with the causes. I'm in the mood to deal with a cause.

They were going to turn her into a boy.

There's never been a war in the history of the world that wasn't started by the wealthy for the wealthy

You were kidnapped not? I was kidnapped. You were forced not into marriage? I was forced into marriage. You want not an annulment? I want not an annulment.