Quotes About Injustice

Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing falsehood.

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

Law and justice are not always the same.

There is equality in the office but not on the street.

In order to achieve that end goal of equality it is a very gendered oppression primarily affecting women that needs to be tackled.

The principle of equality, which is at the core of democratic values, has very little meaning in a world in which global oligarchy is taking over.

Everyone _shouldn't_ have a say in whose life is worth fighting for.

After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they looked up to, but somehow a space on the perch was a slap in the face, and treated as such.

All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.

There is more than one way to be Kluxed, and we need to think about ourselves and the kind of people we elect into public office.

The bed sheet brigade is bad enough, but the real threat to Americans and human rights today is the plain clothes Klux in the halls of government and certain black-robed Klux on court benches.

Misogyny… is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who is confronted with it.

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

I'm slowly becoming a repository for decomposing sorrows, regrets, ignored injustice, and forgotten promises. I can still feel its stench. But when I get accustomed to it, I will call it experience.

To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

If we are deprived of our just due, we naturally experience emotions of anger.

I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour movement.

You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.

I experienced racism in different settings: I was followed in stores, in cars. The way you experience racism depends on how you deal with it. My memories of Goodeve are good ones.

Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.

No, you listen! All my life, you've told me that the world is a dark, cruel place. But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!