Quotes About Injustice

You shouldn't have to accept being seen as lesser or discriminated against because of your skin.

Growing up black, you are lied to and told to act in a way that isn't who you are.

Racism is the greatest cancer of my lifetime.

Listen, it's crazy because I almost have to work twice as hard to get the amount of attention as it is for somebody who's a little lighter than me or from a different country than me, you know?

In my country - even though we have a lot of dark-skinned people - people think the lighter you are, the better you are. They think beauty has to do with being light-skinned. I think that's really wrong.

We believe slavery was abolished with Abraham Lincoln; unfortunately, human slavery is alive and well.

I can be jailed again at any time, it is very easy. They can say I am a criminal and just lock me up.

It is only losers that are prosecuted.

It's just crazy how the Louisiana court system works.

I don't like that putdown: that when you're trying to achieve, you're trying to be white. That makes me mad.

Young African-American males: Stop existing. It could get you killed.

Women do not count," said the Sultan. "Therefore, it is impossible to be unfair to them.

Irena Sendler (code name Jolanta) described it. A Christian doctor's daughter with many Jewish friends, she reconfigured her job at the Social Welfare Department, recruited ten like-minded others, and began issuing false documents with forged signatures.

One of Frank's key tasks was to kill all people of influence, such as teachers, priests, landowners, politicians, lawyers, and artists. Then he began rearranging huge masses of the population: over a span of five years, 860,000 Poles would be uprooted and resettled; 75,000 Germans would take over their lands; 1,300,000 Poles would be shipped to Germany as slave labor; and 330,000 would simply be shot. With

If you see an injustice, and don't move to right it when you have a chance, history won't forget that, either.

She thought briefly of one police force in a neighboring state, some years back, which without a second thought had for many years classified people murdered in its jurisdiction as "male victim," "female victim," and "prostitute.

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Tyrants come and go, tyranny is constant.

I gazed at him. He was old enough to know that few things were fair. Most five-year-olds had already discovered it.

I did not do anything. They had a go at me for being who I am That doesn't make sense Conrad said, People don't get attacked just for being who they are Tell that to the Jews Dart said

Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.

Dear Momma?Wherever you are, if ever you hear the word nigger again, remember they are advertising my book.

Last time I was down South, I walked into this restaurant. This white waitress came up to me and said, 'We don't serve colored people here.' I said, 'That's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.' About that time, these three cousins came in. You know the ones I mean, Ku, Klux and Klan. They said, 'Boy, we're givin' you fair warnin. Anything you do to that chicken, we're gonna do to you.' So I put down my knife and fork, picked up that chicken, and kissed it.

Can you imagine what this old Negro had to go through? Can you imagine the day a Negro woman went to a black man and said: "Honey, I'm pregnant," and both of them fell on their knees and prayed that their baby would be born deformed? Can you imagine what this Negro went through, hoping his baby is born crippled? Because if he was born crippled, he would have less chance of being a slave and more chance of having freedom.