Quotes About Injustice

Africa has been brought back to its knees and this generation can't take it any longer.

Being under a tyrant, the nation will cease to expand, development and life will get tougher and worst as time passes by.

History will always have the final laugh whenever we try to apply the concept of equality to any generation.

Many nations are free by name, but they are still living under tyranny.

The Africans have suffered so much from the political oppression, economic exploitation and social degradation.

The deserving ones are not employed while those who are incapable are enjoying all the wealth of the nation. This is the first chapter of corruption.

The list of genocides committed on Earth are endless, the fact that we never learned or know about them does not mean they did not exist.

The only social injustice in the world is that the harder the job, the less it pays off.

The poor man has sold his freedom of expression to the state.

The takeover of the Amerindians appears to them as the beginning of the Apocalypse.

The truth about corruption is that it's everywhere, even there where you imagine to be living in a paradise land.

There is no doubt that corruption is the first ingredient of poverty and suffering in any environment.

Tyranny come in many forms, whether within or without, the final outcomes are always the same.

Typical was (later governor and U.S. senator) Pitchfork Ben Tillman's cold-blooded massacre in South Carolina of "a troop of black militiamen for no other reason than that they had dared to conduct a celebratory Fourth of July parade through their mostly black town," Thomas writes.

Imagine: they celebrated the Declaration of Independence! But for decades, groups like Tillman's "raped, murdered, lynched, and robbed as a means of intimidating, and instilling pervasive fear in, those whom they despised.… Between 1882 and 1968, there were at least 3,446 reported lynching of blacks in the South.

Sill. Their horses and weapons were confiscated, and they were imprisoned. In a field just

Only those who have never known slavery wonder at what others will do to escape it.

Hope is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, a worldview in which the rich, the powerful, and the unscrupulous do not after all have the last word.

The line between justice and injustice, between things being right and things not being right, can't be drawn between "us" and "them." It runs right down through the middle of each one of us.

In a world of systematic injustice, bullying, violence, arrogance, and oppression, the thought that there might come a day when the wicked are firmly put in their place and the poor and weak are given their due is the best news there can be. Faced with a world in rebellion, a world full of exploitation and wickedness, a good God must be a God of judgment.

Part of the hope the Christian faith offers is the knowledge that God will not allow injustice to be the last word. That is a central element in the good news of the gospel.

The point about truth, and about Jesus and his followers bearing witness to it, is that truth is what happens when humans use words to reflect God's wise ordering of the world and so shine light into its dark corners, bringing judgment and mercy where it is badly needed. Empires can't cope with this. They make their own 'truth,' creating 'facts on the ground' in the depressingly normal way of violence and injustice.

Those twin beliefs give rise not to a meek acquiescence to injustice in the world but to a robust determination to oppose it. English

Take Psalm 73. The writer knows the 'normal' line: good things come to good people, bad things to bad. But it hasn't worked out like that. The wicked are flourishing, and the righteous are crushed under their feet. It's only when the poet goes into God's temple that a larger, healing viewpoint can be glimpsed.