Quotes About Injustice

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

Behind every bad law, a deep fear.

Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.

Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.

Fear and ignorance are the key roots to racism.

Because of fear, people who have civil rights can't use them

Your life begins to end the moment you start being silent about the things that matter.

Always hold your head up high, even if on the inside you're about to cry. Pretend that nothings wrong at all, close your eyes before you fall. If you cant see it, it's not there, this is life, and its not fair.

Many people dont deserve what they get and many people dont get what they deserve.

Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.

I see no changes, All I see is racist faces, misplaced hate makes disgrace for races we under, I wonder what it takes to make this one better place.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.