Quotes About Injustice

Mac, who in hell are these vigilantes, anyway? What kind of guys are they?" "Why, they're the dirtiest guys in any town. They're the same ones that burned the houses of old German people during the war. They're the same ones that lynch Negroes. They like to be cruel. They like to hurt people, and they always give it a nice name, patriotism or protecting the constitution. But they're just the old nigger torturers working.

Nenhuma tribo selvagem, nenhum invasor foi alguma vez responsável pelas crueldades estúpidas e deliberadas dos alemães, que arrasaram a Ucrânia como crianças cruéis e frenéticas.

If she'd been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.

British Columbia has been described as a banana republic, only with bigger bananas

But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.

Let me tell you, Mr. teacher when you say you'll make me right, in five hundred years of fighting not one Indian turned white

Jacob Zuma built a 2 million rand swimming pool, but no one in the family knows how to swim

My activism did not spring from being black...The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in the oneness of the human family.

And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.

Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.

Children are victims of a social problem that wounds the family.

The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.

My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize

Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.

Racism is a disease of white people

Nothing nice happens to murdered women.

Not as much as it bothers me that you just grabbed me without even trying to warn me first. If you're trying to undo ages of prejudice, maybe you should start by acting civil.

If my father was alive today, he would have fought for Kurdish rights

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.

When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

When I was 7, I wanted to be a jockey. My father told me women weren't allowed. I couldn't believe it. I was perfectly willing to fail on my own merits, but to be flunked at birth?

I think my father felt very strongly that when there was bigotry anywhere, prejudice anywhere, all of us lose out.

When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.