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Quotes About Injustice

Putting your boot on another man's head and stealing him blind, until someone with a bigger boot comes along to kick you out of the way?
~ Unknown
First the Communists killed all the smart people who made things work in the cities. And now they want to make doing good at anything at all a punishable crime! What has happened to the world?
~ Unknown
Standartenführer Walter Rauff,
~ Unknown
For what? Putting your boot on another man's head and stealing him blind, until someone with a bigger boot comes along to kick you out of the way?
~ Unknown
First the Communists killed all the smart people who made things work in the cities. And now they want to make doing good at anything at all a punishable crime! What has happened to the world? How did we end up in an asylum?
~ Unknown
We have the best government that money can buy.
~ Mark Twain
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
~ Mark Twain
Being dead wasn't supposed to hurt. Where was the fairness in that? If I was dead, the least the universe could do was make it painless
~ Kiersten White, Paranormalcy
An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
~ Elton John
There's nothing funny about, 'Yeah, I took a First Class plane ticket and I went to some designer beach and made out with a Laotian slave girl.' Who cares?
~ Henry Rollins
It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
It is funny that those who make the laws by which we are expected to live are usually the ones who have no regard for it.
~ Paul Bamikole
An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to be a safe and secure world
~ Hilary Benn
Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice
~ Nelson Mandela
Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.
~ Tavis Smiley
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
~ Susan Sontag
It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.
~ Ida B. Wells
It's not about loving animals. It's about fighting injustice. My whole goal is for humans to have as little contact as possible with animals.
~ Gary Yourofsky
The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
~ Malcolm X
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
~ Oscar Wilde
The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.
~ John Jay Chapman
Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll