Quotes About Injustice

Allí donde normalmente va la dignidad, él sólo tiene un muñón; se la amputaron.

Si cuarenta mil niños sucumben diariamente en el purgatorio del hambre y de la sed si la tortura de los pobres cuerpos envilece una a una a las almas y si el poder se ufana de sus cuarentenas o si los pobres de solemnidad son cada vez menos solemnes y más pobres ya es bastante grave que un solo hombre o una sola mujer contemplen distraídos el horizonte neutro pero en cambio es atroz sencillamente atroz si es la humanidad la que se encoge de hombros.

Allá donde normalmente va la dignidad, él sólo tiene un muñón; se la amputaron.

Los tiranos y los déspotas suelen tener la costumbre de torturar, invadir y asesinar. Hay

El pasado era ése [...] él creyendo que la vida iba a quedar allí, detenida en ese idilio injusto, uno junto al otro, defendidos quién sabe por qué, solos en la nube de humo y metáforas cochinas

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.

History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like, Excuse me, let me take your car. I'm discovering it. I'm putting my flag on your windshield.

We're Irishmen, and our food is being sent away, grown in Irish soil to feed English bellies, while ours are empty and our people starve and

In our law, a slave was a thing.

It's how it all begins. "You Jews" this, "you Jews" that. And when you have lumped all Jews together, you can justify anything you do to them. There are no longer good Jews, bad Jews, clever Jews, stupid Jews, old Jews, young Jews. There are just Jews. But I am a German, just like you, whether you like it or not.

In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

They call us monsters because it makes it easier to hurt us. But monsters are people, too.

Even before the Civil War, outsiders from Catholic Ireland and from Asia had been made to feel unwelcome in "the land of the free." And this was to say nothing of the black population, whose bondage remained a gross contradiction to the lofty sentiments of the Declaration of Independence.

Growing up in the U.S means that there are people out there who hate you just because you are what you are..be it black or rich, Jewish or Irish Catholic, whatever. Anything different from the bigot. There are some small minded people out there who have got to think they are better than anyone else. So it goes.

Life isn't fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish.

This alter-electorate was prepared to exact not revenge but absorption. It was a swallowing of the conservative beast with a maw of injustice, disparity, and want. They were over, the white conservatives, this ghost ship notwithstanding

In my experience, what defines a crime depends on who's getting screwed.

We were ordered to war but not allowed to win the war. We were ordered to kill but court-martialed for killing. We were ordered to defeat Communism in Southeast Asia only to see Communism win at home.

And I understand my sisters when they say every woman has a story that's been told a maxim of one soul, maybe less And that is why you'll never hear me call a woman slut, bitch or a dyke, No matter what she does, because I do not blame her I blame the men who have emotionally and physically raped her, I blame these corporations whose images tell them they hate her, And I put my arms on her shoulder and tell her how great to life and to God that SHE created her

The victims of highway building tended to be overwhelmingly poor and black.

Often overlooked are the ways prison culture systematically maintains and nurtures rape culture, targeting women and men made to be women. Again, members of LGBT and trans communities suffer especially egregiously in prison,[111] since they directly challenge the heteronormativity maintained by hegemonic masculinism.

We are trapped in the jaws of something shaking the life out of us." With these words from his historical novel, Philadelphia Fire, John Edgar Wideman conveys a sense of what it means to be caught out on stage, vulnerable at the point of having one's life taken, shaken out, by what I have term "the theatrics of state terror." Wideman's

Throughout U.S. history—whether it was a matter of controlling indigenous peoples across Western lands that white settlers wanted to occupy, black populations deemed unruly, or laborers not complying with the economic usurpation of a white overclass—the weaponry of military and local policing have often comingled.

The power to execute invests a near absolute power in the state. As Robert Meeropol has suggested, the granting of such absolute power most surely tends to corrupt, and especially to corrupt democracy. Meeropol's own parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed in 1953 when he was six years old.