Quotes About Injustice

Raymond Yellow Thunder, a gentle, sober Pine Ridge elder; he was attacked by some white racists who stripped him naked from the waist down, forced him to dance at gunpoint, and then beat him to death—just for the fun of it.

The rich kept stuffing their pockets and the poor fell deeper in debt.

The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

Love is the only cement that can hold this broken community together.When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs fo my brothers.

On an altar of prejudice we crucify our own, yet the blood of all children is the color of God.

a young Indian in our little Datsun chased one of the government's huge armored cars. He was banging on the armor with a stick, "counting coup." The

It takes a particular type of human being to want to be a hack. Half of their waking hours they are prisoners themselves, inmates by their own free will. Uneducated and underpaid, the only thing they have going for them is feeling superior to the helpless prisoners. Here, at last, are men they can look down upon because they have them in their power. If

White men invented whiskey and brought it to America. They manufacture, advertise, and sell it to us. They make the profit on it and cause the conditions that make Indians drink in the first place.

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

Racism breeds racism in reverse.

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power. That goes for the U.S.A as well as for Russia or any other country in the world.

The men who had brought us whiskey and the smallpox had come with the cross in one hand and the gun in the other.

After my sister Sandra was born the doctors there per formed a hysterectomy on my mother, in fact sterilizing her without her permission, which was common at the time, and up to just a few years ago, so that it is hardly worth mentioning. In the opinion of some people, the fewer Indians there are, the better. As Colonel Chivington said to his soldiers: "Kill 'em all, big and small, nits make lice!

To be angry, poverty has to rub shoulders with wealth.

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

It is impossible to Name and Act against oppression if there are no Nameable oppressors.

I know what it feels like to have my choices taken away. I pray no daughter of your kingdom will ever have to fight for her voice to be heard as I have had to do

Their voices meld into a cloudy rumble of their own, and I ponder Mira's and Aidan's secrets and imagine the injustice that threads through other lives, injustice that has no face because it is hidden away in a dark, shameful place, hidden for years in hopes of making it untrue.

Even justice couldn't erase scars—it only delivered on a promise to the living that evil would not go unpunished.

Once we fear to take a stand, tyranny will have won.

Sobald wir Angst davor haben, uns für etwas einzusetzen, haben Gewalt und Willkür schon gewonnen.

The human race has always found a group to marginalize--every culture, every time, every race.

Said Simone de Beauvoir in her groundbreaking book The Second Sex , "Just as in America there is no Negro problem but rather a white problem; just as 'anti-Semitism is not a Jewish problem; it is our problem'; so the women problem has always been a man's problem. . . . Men have always held the lot of women in their hands; and they have determined what it should be, not according to her interest, but rather with regard to their own projects, their fears, and their needs.