Quotes About Injustice

Do you know why people like me are shy about being capitalists? Well, its because we, for as long as we have known you, were capital, like bales of cotton and sacks of sugar, and you were commanding, cruel capitalists, and the memory of this so strong, the experience so recent, that we can't quite bring ourselves to embrace this idea that you think so much of.

You mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won't let near the bread?

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture; none of it under the right people.

Well we can't teach 'em, better pass 'em. Let those eradicate who can Man's inhumanity to man Through teaching boys to kiss the Flag, Keep their rooms tidy, kick a fag, Follow the leader, mind the rules, Blunt and ignore the only tools That interest the half-mature.

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.

Mexican right-wing talk radio wants a fence built on their southern border to keep out those damned Hondurans and Salvadorans and Guatemalans. I heard a radio host in Guadalajara decry these "aliens." It seems Hondurans want to take Mexican jobs. Want to steal health care, get an education. They don't share the proper language, and they carry disease and lower the standard of living and want to steal social security benefits. Rushito Limbortinez in the house!

If you're not white, you have to be brilliant, just to be considered acceptable.

You know quite well that suffering can't be driven from the world by violence. Nor can it be wiped out by bread, work, and welfare. You do know that, don't you? You yourself are full of tears that cannot be wiped away.

One of the basic human rights he takes away from you is the right to be angry with him.

If you are aware of chronic or severe mistreatment and do not speak out against it, your silence communicates implicitly that you see nothing unacceptable taking place.

The abuser comes and goes as he pleases, meets or ignores his responsibilities at his whim, and skips anything he finds too unpleasant.

La víctima, cuando siente que la autoridad la cuestiona, porque no se le cree de entrada, prefiere desistirse de la denuncia y renuncia a continuar el proceso jurídico. Le da la sensación de desprotección, de abandono, desamparo e impunidad, pues sabe que difícilmente probará el delito. En este país tiene más fuerza el dicho del agresor que el de la víctima.

En México, a las mujeres que denuncian les queda claro que el ministerio público no les cree, que no es su defensor y que está a favor del agresor. Estas actitudes producen un ciclo de revictimización de la denunciante y siente mucho temor porque percibe que no se valora la injusticia que se cometió en su contra. El Estado promueve la denuncia del delito y luego maltrata a la víctima.

Cómo sabe un cliente si la mujer está ahí por propia voluntad o es esclava de una red de tratantes que la controlan con deudas impagables, amenazas y aisloamiento?

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

They [the slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom—jumped into the waves for freedom—starved for freedom—fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot—and their tyrants have been their historians!

L'Église espagnole est devenue la Putain des militaires épurateurs.

It seemed to me much more than the mere question whether the negro should remain in slavery; that it really involved the question whether liberty should be strangled on the continent dedicated to liberty.

An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre."

Royale's confidence tore something inside Honor. For a moment Honor hated her white skin, hated that this woman would fear her on that basis alone.

T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.