Quotes About Injustice

El silencio es el verdadero crimen de lesa humanidad.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy." Woodrow Wilson, twenty-eighth President of the United States of America. Served 1913–1921. President during World War I, only President to be interred within Washington, DC, at the National Cathedral.

The unforgettable thing in his life is usually not a thing he has done or left undone, but a thing done to him—some insolence or cruelty for which he could not, or did not, avenge himself.

To this day, mass graves of Stalin's victims continue to be uncovered in eastern Poland. As

The Bengal famine has been the final epitaph of British rule and achievement in India." Churchill stubbornly refused concessions to nationalist sentiment, dismissing objections from the Americans and their Chinese clients. Leo Amery recoiled in dismay from Churchill's ravings:

It is not only more bloody and more murderous than any previous wars but also more cruel, more relentless, more pitiless … It discards all the parameters to which we defer in times of peace and which we called the rights of man. It does not recognise the privileges of the wounded man or of the doctor and it does not distinguish between non-combatants and the fighting part of the population.

He has nothing useful to say about fascism who is unwilling to mention capitalism.

There is only one expression for truth: the thought which repudiates injustice. If insistence on the good sides of life is not sublated in the negative whole, it transfigures its own opposite: violence.

The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.

Perhaps women were once so dangerous they had to have their feet bound.

The ground we walk on is impacted down and hard with blood and bones of those who died unjustly. There's not one title to land or life, even your own, but was built on rape and murder, back a few years. It would take a fire indeed to burn out all this error.

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic admiration.

Blacks should be used to play whites. For centuries we had probed their faces, the angles of their bodies, the sounds of their voices, and even their odors. Often our survival had depended on the accurate reading of a white man's chuckle or the disdainful wave of a white woman's hand.

You mean the War of Colonial Aggression?

Ljudi su nepravedni, izigravaju naše povjerenje i ostavljaju nas kad nam je teško, potrebni smo im samo neošte?eni i jaki.

I'm slowly becoming a repository for decomposing sorrows, regrets, ignored injustice, and forgotten promises. I can still feel its stench. But when I get accustomed to it, I will call it experience.

Onda je otac rekao: pamti, nesre?a je što kod nas niko ne misli da je na pravom mjestu, i svako svakome je mogu?i suparnik; ljudi preziru one koji ne uspiju, a mrze one koji se uspnu iznad njih; navikni se na prezir ako želiš mir, ili na mržnju ako pristaneš na borbu. Ali ne ulazi u okršaj ako nisi siguran da ?eš oboriti protivnika. Ne upiri prstom na tu?e nepoštenje ako nisi dovoljno jak da to ne moraš dokazivati.

Pominjali su samo ono što se njih ticalo, samo što je njih tištalo. A tištalo ih je mnogo šta, nestašica, skupo?a, strah, velike i male nepravde, prazna obe?anja, puste godine, iznevjerene želje, suviše ?este no?i, rane starosti, male ljubavi, velike mržnje, nesigurnost, poniženja, sav onaj jad što se zove život.

nous n'allons pas ensevelir la dépouille de cet homme pour proclamer son innocence, nous ferons plus : nous sèmerons ces ossements en souvenir d'une injustice. Qu'il en germe ce que Dieu décidera.

Pravda je kao zdravlje, misliš o njoj kad je nema, i zaista je neodre?ena, ali je možda najviše želja da se udavi nepravda, a ona je vrlo odre?ena. Svaka nepravda je jednaka, a ?ovjeku se ?ini da je najve?a koja je njemu u?injena. A ako mu se ?ini, onda i jeste tako, jer se ne može misliti tu?om glavom.

Sad smo jednaki, unesre?ili su nas zli ljudi.

With every form of slavery that has ended, new ones emerge that are more personal and sinister than the older forms.

JIM CROW LAWS WERE ENFORCED IN MUCH OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH FROM 1877 TO THE MID-1960S. THESE LOCAL AND STATE LAWS KEPT BLACK PEOPLE AND WHITE PEOPLE SEPARATE.

Standing in the heat and noise, facing the rows of bent heads, Ethan Figman willed himself to leave that long sleep in which you dream that the inhuman things that people do to one another on a distant continent have nothing to do with the likes of you.