Quotes About Injustice

I was unwilling to be the good girl who respected the rules in a game designed to keep everyone but the rulemakers off balance.

To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty.

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.

Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.

Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back. And given what the United States Government and Western powers have done to the third world, I feel that these countries should fight back.

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.

Government is waging war against the people.

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be governed any longer as long as government is unjust.

These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.

If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight.