Quotes About Injustice

Bad things happen when good people ignore them

Don't you think the soldiers look like they came straight from high school yearbooks, too young to be over in Iraq, fighting for no reason?

Racism is one of the biggest taboos in our culture, yet most discrimination against Asian-Americans goes largely unnoticed...its blown off by the rest of the media as a joke, as in "Look at them. They get all up in arms over nothing".

They (the government) are unfazed by any amount of travesty, loss, tragedy, death, and destruction.

You're going to relegate my history to a month.

At one time the Irish had been forbidden by English law to educate their children, to own a horse worth more than five pounds, to play the Irish pipes, to wear the color green… the list went on and on. Most of the oppressive statutes were no longer enforced, but the shamed submission they had engendered remained.

Mort Sahl, while attending a preview of Otto Preminger's film Exodus, stood up and called out, "Otto, let my people go!

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating.

I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

I Ain't Got No Quarrel With The VietCong...No VietCong Ever Called Me Nigger.

Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

The one who commits aggression and tyranny, and the one who helps him upon it, and the one who is pleased over it - all are party and participants in it.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

Did you ever bury thirty-five men in a place in back of your house, thirty-five tunnel workers the doctors didn't attend, died in the tunnel camps, under rocks, everywhere, world without end.

Buried, five at a time, pine boxes, Rinehart & Dennis paid him $55 a head for burying these men in plain pine boxes. His mother is suing him: misuse of land.

What compels me to fight this society is, of course, outrage over injustice, a love of freedom, and a feeling of responsibility for perpetuating and enlarging the human spirit — its beauty, creativity, and latent capacity to improve the world. I do not care to come to terms with an irrational society that corrodes all that is valuable in humanity, that eats away at all that is beautiful and noble in the human experience.

The number of men sitting at Atlanta and Leavenworth for revolting against the extortions of the government is always ten times as great as the number of government officials condemned for oppressing the taxpayers to their own gain. (Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy, pp.

War is Mass Murder, Conscription is Slavery, Taxation is Robbery.

As the old saying goes, negroes are nonviolent with those who are violent toward them and violent toward those who are nonviolent toward them. Selfish