Quotes About Injustice

This was the world they were meant to enter: a world of fuckers.

But what happened to the talented women who lacked sharp cheekbones or an ease in the universe? The ones who had no attachments to powerful men?

My inheritance had become available, my aunt—my only champion—had been killed, and my uncle had been given power over my person and my money.

doesn't he come for us? Why does he want us to be poor?

No one had ever told me I was not a poor relation. They meant to steal from me and keep me believing I was beholden to them.

As Margaret would later write, Europe had come to seem "my America," an unsettled territory where liberty was at hand, while the New World she had left behind had grown "stupid with the lust of gain, soiled by crime in its willing perpetuation of slavery, shamed by an unjust war," the imperialist conflict with Mexico over the annexation of Texas.

felt a prickle at the special horror of being not only ill but also marginalized—your testimony dismissed because your lab work fails to match a preexisting pattern.

* If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just a rubbish bin!

Fakir bir çocu?un ayakkab?s?ndaki büyük bir delik, onun içinde ya?ad??? toplumu mahkûm etmek için en basit kan?tt?r.

How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?

Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!

Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!

Sometimes life puts too big weights on little shoulders and the reply of little shoulders to this injustice is remarkable: To carry the burden with courage and dignity!

There is no justice here; there is no justice there; there is no justice anywhere!

Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!

Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words. "That's what my fa said! He says that inside their hearts and spirits they are nothing but little men who need to feel powerful.

We didn't let them do anything to us, Travanion," Beatriss said fiercely, "They did it without out permission.

You're judging her by her literacy,' Tara says. 'You're a literacist.

What if she's all I give you in this life of ours, my love?" she asked quietly. "Then I'll shout at the goddess in fury," he said fiercely. "I'll beg to know why I've been given so much when other men have so little.

Nothing . That's what happens to the stepmother in Cinderella . Nothing.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

Of the 1,019 prisoners sent on the last train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, Otto Frank was one of the forty-five men and eighty-two women who survived.

Of the 1,019 Jews who arrived from Westerbork on September 5, 258 men and 212 women survived the selection process. The remaining 549, among them all the children, were killed immediately after their arrival in the gas chambers of Birkenau and their bodies burned in the neighboring crematoria. All eight residents of 263 Prinsengracht survived the first round. Anne, at fifteen years and three months, was among the youngest.

It was ridiculous that things outside a person's control could make others hate you. The nature of your blood wasn't a choice, but humanity had a long history of killing, imprisoning, or fearing others for their race or religion.