Quotes About Injustice

We can't stop a baby in Africa from starving to death... but we can afford enough technology and weaponry to blow the world up a million times over.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Changing the course of destiny, so I'm strapped with weaponry cause the government don't give a f-k about protecting me.

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.

The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.

If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.

There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.

It is impossible for a person to earn separate dignity while his own race is uncivilized.

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

In the name of a race you cannot find any dignity in the contemptability of your race.

At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.

In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in.

Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people.

All lived lives of dignity and repression.

It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.