Quotes About Injustice

Toda sociedade que se crê senhora de sua história, que se sente segura de seus propósitos, convicta da excelência de seus princípios e persuadida de possuir a verdade, tiraniza e oprime.

No beneficiary of slaves is supporter of birth control.

In order not to find life unbearable, you must accept two things: the ravages of time and the injustices of man.

Were we all, the whole upper crust of Russian society, so totally insensitive, so horribly obtuse, as not to feel that the charmed life that we were leading was in itself an injustice and hence could not possibly last?

D'une manière globale, je dirais que pour écrire, il faut [...] ressentir une profonde insatisfaction devant le discours majoritaire et englobant qui nie les différences et qui sclérose la pensée.

History choked me History took hold of my throat

If you are wronged and do nothing but sulk about it, you wrong yourself even further.

He laid a hand on my arm and said calmly, with resignation, "Don't get excited and angry. It's useless to get angry with them. They have the last word always. If they say something happened, it happened. It's useless to resist. I've learned this from my personal experience.

Soha életemben nem követtem el b?nt - mondtam határozottan - Mi másért lenne ide bezárva, minthogy b?nt követett el? Éppen az bizonyítja, hogy b?nös, hogy itt van.

Are you discriminating me?!

The foster home they were leaving was no place to be. The mother, Mrs. Boone, slapped Paris around every time her real daughter did something that called for punishment....After each beating, the daughter, Lisa, would swear she had no clue how her mama got the mistaken notion that Paris was the one who'd smashed a favorite vase, or stained the kitchen tablecloth, or whatever. My name is Paris, not Stupid, Paris would say to herself.

for there is no greater torment for a man than to desire revenge and be unable to get it.

I am not seeking to justify him; I am only asking you whether you think it right that an inexperienced youth who had been tempted and led away by others should have received the same sentence as the man who had taken the chief part in the affair. That is to say, although Dierpiennikov and the man Voron-Drianni received an equal measure of punishment, their CRIMINALITY was not equal.

The age of disappearing women. It had been going on forever. Thousands of us vanished, with not a single police officer searching. Not a word from the newspapers. Only our long absences and quiet returns. If we ever returned at all.

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

Nothing meaning the absence of tangible threats—no gun to her head, no knife to her throat—and yet what is poverty if not a threat? What is being called that word or followed down the street by packs of boys if not a threat?

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

To those who insisted that the lot of the free white laborer was worse than that of the slave, Frederick Douglass liked to point out that his old position on the plantation had been vacant since his departure, and encouraged them to apply.

If you are a white male, you don't deserve to live. You are a cancer, you're a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world!

Die Formverachtung geht auf Kosten der Minderheit.

The police have come to represent not just racist brutality but also the chief enforcers of a heartless, corrupt, unjust

Due scugnizzi davano la caccia a un gatto zoppo, la cui morte avrebbe regalato alle loro magre esistenze un breve divertimento (223).