Quotes About Injustice

Most Americans take their freedom very seriously, but they don't realize that not everyone is free.

To die hating them, that was freedom

In the United States, people don't revolt in order to obtain freedom, but continue denying it to others.

There's a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly.

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!

Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

You know what guys & parking spaces have in common? The good ones are always taken and the only ones left are handicaps.

Guys die down here on a regular basis-that's the reality. They die here for a nickel. They are killed for a piece of change or because somebody looks at somebody wrong.

When a white army battles Indians and wins, it is called a great victory, but if they lose it is called a massacre.

No good Indian but a dead Indian

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.

Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior

The black dog gets the food; the white dog gets the blame

These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.

The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.

Men won't easily give up a system in which half the world's population works for next to nothing...[and recognizes that]precisely because that half works for so little, it may have no energy left to fight for anything else.

How could I get up there in public and act like I'm some representative of the class? I can't even go to college like the rest of them. I don't even know where I'm going to live. That's not right. That's not who the valedictorian is.

In those days they didn't enforce the laws. We were the people you don't always see, flashing our polite smiles, trimming hedges, parking your cars in lots, doing the night shift. You needed us and we needed you.