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Quotes About Injustice

The tyrant should take heed to what he doth, Since every victim-carrion turns to use, And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth, Against each piled injustice.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.
~ Elton John
That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?
~ Frances Farmer
Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
~ Frederick Douglass
God, the world is so f - ked up, and we all have to do something about it.
~ Gaby Hoffmann
The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.
~ John F. Kennedy
I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.
~ John Shelby Spong
Because things are not agreeable, " said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
While police officers who blatantly shaft the common people believe that they are God, they are the Devil to those that they wrong.
~ Steven Magee
It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right.
~ Joyce Rachelle
I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
~ Jimi Hendrix
The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.
~ Eric Holder
Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.
~ Eduardo Galeano
When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment. The biggest barrier to equality for all is that inequality for some feels good.
~ Philip Gulley
A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.
~ David Simon
Not to mention our former tag team champions lost their titles after my good friend Christian was hit in the genitals with a hockey stick by a midgit! I mean enough is enough
~ Kurt Angle
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
~ Ernest Hemingway
What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?
~ Johann Georg Hamann
God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.
~ Mary Doria Russell
It feels good to rail against what is wrong in the world, to fight the good fight, to beat the drum of making a difference. I am right there with you.
~ Brenda Strong
Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.
~ Stephen Chbosky
FACTS Fact #1 Mean people suck. Fact #2 Bad things happen to good people. Fact #3 Good doesn't always prevail over evil.
~ Susane Colasanti
I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.
~ Barack Obama