Quotes About Injustice

They [the Negroes] will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion—not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.

I am firmly of the opinion that people who can't speak have nothing to say. It's one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues … allow them a language as lousy as their life

the law has neither eyes, nor ears, nor bowels of humanity; and it turns into marble the hearts of all those that are nursed in its principles.

Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.

Where torture has been long applied we find that it is developed to grades of incredible horror.

Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

Our nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination… rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

Haven't you seen that part of me as well? A man's many things. To isolate one part of him and judge him on that alone is to do him an injustice, don't you think?

Non c'è fine alla crudeltà in questo mondo, e non importa quanto si precipiti in basso, non c'è mai fondo. Ma tu hai una cosa bella in te, Mose. Sei un sioux. Nelle tue vene scorre sangue buono e nobile. Non permettere a nessuno di dirti il contrario.

The law wasn't perfect, but anytime those who had the power to twist it did so, it grew more grotesque.

The whole smallpox on a blanket thing. Bounties on our scalps. The government schools, which were really an attempt to drive the Indian out of us and to get free labor in the bargain.

1. The world is hard. Be strong. 2. Love is for only a few. Don't expect it. 3. Life isn't fair. But some people are. Be one of them.

Specifically he was Dakota but in those days they were known as Sioux. He didn't like being called an Indian which was understandable given the image that had been acid-burned with ridicule and hatred into the minds of white Americans. In the valley of the Minnesota River—hell, maybe everywhere back then—it was dangerous to be an Indian.

There's no end to the cruelty in this world, and no matter how far down you reach, no bottom. But you got one thing going for you, Mose. You're Sioux. There's good, noble blood running through your veins. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.

They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit.

possible topics around which the currents of speech may flow: Death and the danger of death: violence, fighting, sickness, fear, dreams, premonitions and communication with the dead. Sex and relations between the sexes: dating, courtship, proposals, marriage, breaking off relationships, affairs, intermarriage. Moral indignation: assignment and rejection of blame, unfairness, injustice, gossip, violations of social norms.

Who among you would stand up, step out of that jury box, and trade places with me? Who would be accused of a violent murder based on…nothing? How would you prove your innocence when there was never any proof against you in the first place?

there are wounds worse than fatal, which the law's little binary distinctions—guilty/innocent, criminal/victim—cannot fathom, let alone fix. The law is a hammer, not a scalpel.

One rabbi who survived the camp summed it up well when he said that at Auschwitz it was as though there existed a world in which all the Ten Commandments were reversed. Mankind had never seen such a hell.

He rages because the people don't deserve their country and proved it by electing a racist orange glob of hair coughed up by the Russian cat.

With all the world's uncertainties and injustices, with all the doubt that piles around us like dead leaves in an autumn storm, you remain so sure of your truths. It must be comforting to be so sure.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

Let the calumniators of the colored race despise themselves for their baseness and illiberality of spirit, and henceforth cease to talk of the natural inferiority of those who require nothing but time and opportunity to attain to the highest point of human excellence.