Quotes About Injustice

the force it takes to pull a trigger is out of all proportion to the force of the bullet that does the killing.

I nazisti odiavano gli ebrei più di quanto odiassero gli zingari. E però gli altri prigionieri disprezzavano gli zingari più degli ebrei. Il fatto era che nessuno, a parte le puttane e i ladri, sembrava disprezzare gli ebrei, mentre tutti si permettevano di disprezzare gli zingari.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison.

We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; the rock was landed on us.

Whether you're educated or illiterate, whether you live on the boulevard or in the alley, you're going to catch hell just like I am. We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man. He just happens to be a white man.

The Negro "revolution" is controlled by these foxy white liberals, by the government itself. But the Black revolution is controlled only by God.

Cruelty takes many forms, but all those forms depend on the human hability to dehumanize and de-individualize another person.

Once individuals are identified as belonging to an outgroup, there seems to be no limit to he human capacity for cruelty.

I see America through the eyes of a victim. I don't see any American dream. I see an American nightmare.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare.

I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it's not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself?

Why was it that when noughts committed criminal acts, the fact that they were noughts was always pointed out? The banker was a Cross. The newsreader didn't even mention it.

I suppose it doesn't occur to you that I can think the system just as unjust as you do.

The media called us ruthless terrorists. We're not. We're just fighting for what's right. Being born a nought shouldn't automatically slam shut myriad doors before you've even drawn your first breath.

Noughts... Even the word was negative. Nothing. Nil. Zero. Nonentities. It wasn't a name we'd chosen for ourselves. It was a name we'd been given.

blankers!' I winced at the venom in Dad's voice. And I'd never heard him refer to noughts as blankers before. Blankers … What a horrible word! A nasty word. My friend Callum wasn't a blanker. He wasn't …

There's more to life than just us noughts and you Crosses.

Except that the teachers had totally ignored us, and the Crosses had used any excuse to bump into us and knock our books on the floor, and even the noughts serving in the food hall had made sure they served everyone else in the queue before