Quotes About Injustice

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

I'm not sexist in any way - sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in this world.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption.

There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence.

The apartheid system renounces no violence.

Nothing will ever bring back George Floyd, or any of the thousands of others we have lost to racist police violence.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

In this world, people are violent toward people that they feel are conceptualized as smaller than them. It's an impulse that we have.

My view as a historian is that the empire was an extractive, exploitative, racist and violent institution and that the history of empire is one we need to confront and come to terms with, rather than celebrate.

I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.

For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.

For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.

Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else you are lying.