Quotes About Injustice

an army of incompetents, poltroons, political cronies, and victims—always there are the victims whom the others send to slaughter in their stead—

but needlessly cruel in Stone Dreamer's opinion, ranted and swore that he'd never submit to the white chiefs while he could draw breath.

Every colored person in this country is enslaved to the fears of whites and to the way those fears influence white behavior.

The slavery of ignorance is as wicked as any other kind. Perhaps it's the crudest slavery of all, because any man can see an iron cuff on his own leg, but it's hard to detect an invisible one." She watched for a reaction.

Had she been guided by some unexpressed belief that Negroes were somehow unfit for a white woman to touch? She didn't know, but this moment in the gray morning jarred her to awareness. Rosalie felt no different from any other child hurting.

I have dwelt a while in the soul of a shackled black man and taken a little of it into my own, forever.

Talc: You have been found guilty of misleading and perverting the young. I decree that you be hung by your underdeveloped testicles until dead. ZORRO

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. Intellectual myopia, often called stupidity, is no doubt a reason. But the privileged also feel that their privileges, however egregious they may seem to others, are a solemn, basic, God-given right. The sensitivity of the poor to injustice is a trivial thing compared with that of the rich.

he's imagining himself Justice incarnate, balancing the scales. He's forgotten that Justice incarnate is not only balancing the scales but also blindfolded.

It was as though they felt it was especially unfair that it should strike one of the sixteen-year-olds, one of the few young men who could be free and happy in the summer of 1942.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

We make her paint her face and dance If she won't be a slave, we say that she don't love us If she's real, we say she's trying to be a man While putting her down we pretend that she is above us

These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking round.

One may reject such proposals as something that will hurt merit but the ground reality is students from such sections do not have the same access to quality education that rich students enjoy.

I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right.

They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.

When there are two PhD's in a developing country one is Head of State and the other is in exile.

The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

What we are seeing here is environmental injustice

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.