Quotes About Injustice

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.

Racist writing is a craft failure.

If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.

Your humans slaughter each other because of the color of your skin, or your faith or your plitics -- or for no reason at all -- too many of you hate as easily as you draw breath. - Magneto

You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.

Where there are people, there is injustice, and that is not God's design. It may not be our fault, but it is our fight. Let us do our part by holding up our corners.

Do you feel like a man when you push her around? Do you feel better as she falls to the ground?

Just because I am strong enough to handle pain, doesn't mean I deserve it.

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

Life is not fair... why does it rain the hardest on those who deserve the sun the most.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

The world is an unjust place." 'Death's brother is the name that poets give to sleep.

Ne diyebilirim? Dünya adil bir yer de?il.

Il semble que punir les femmes soit le passe-temps favori des poètes. Comme s'il ne pouvait pas y avoir d'histoire à moins que nous ne rampions en pleurant.

Non mi sorprese come venivo ritratta: la maga altezzosaannichilita di fronte alla spada dell'eroe, inginocchiata a supplicare pietà. Le donne umiliate mi sembrano il passatempo preferito dei poeti. Quasi non possa esistere storia senza che noi strisciamo o piangiamo.

Atau mereka menganggap, memang beginilah bangsa kulit putih, yang merasa lebih tinggi dan lebih baik dari bangsa kulit berwarna mana pun ?

Seperti juga bagi orang-orang pribumi lain, bagi Salim itu pun logika yang tidak bisa diusik-usik. Bila kita kuli kontrak, kita pun kehilangan semua kemanusiaan dan hak kita. Kita harus selalu melakukan apa yang diperintahkan oleh seorang tuan administratur untuk melakukannya, dan karena itu akan sangat ganjillah bila kita harus sakit karena satu pon daging busuk

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

I would also like to cop easily to my abundant privilege - except that the notion of privilege as something to which one could "easily cop," as in "cop to once and be done with," is ridiculous. Privilege saturates, privilege structures.

Middle aged women are such easy prey, like they're supposed to walk around with eyes averted, hanging their heads in shame at their wreckage. (Bellamy)

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.