Quotes About Injustice

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.

Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that is eating at the heart of the nation like a cancer.

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others.

The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.

A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

The freedom of birds is an insult to me.

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.