Quotes About Injustice

Poverty is nondenominational and has no national identity.

In the last few years she has realized that all you have to do to become invisible is be a woman of a certain age, without any outstanding features: it's automatic.

If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.

mientras respira el tirano, la libertad se asfixia".

No entiendo a esta humanidad que degüella a los pueblos y perdona a los déspotas Robespierre

The cruel social arbiters of Indian society were denying individual merit. In their eyes, Ambedkar was simply a Mahar, and they could not care less if his scholarship was as vast as the sky.

Why didn't an epic poet ever write a word about our lives?

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

Speaking of racism in relation to a religion, not a race, is a big disservice to the language and to the intelligence.

No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.

A lot of women ask themselves why they should bring a child into the world? So that it will be hungry, so that it will be cold, so that it will be betrayed and humiliated, so that it will be slaughtered by war or disease? They reject the hope that its hunger will be satisfied, its cold warmed, that loyalty and respect will accompany it through life, that it will be a devote a life to the effort to eliminate war and disease.

War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.

We were all victims of an oppressive system, but that mattered far less to us than our deep bonding with our owners.

I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first. - Ender

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

In the present world, the most beautiful thing is a victim.

I even watched in silence when my own wife was violated.

The revolution is far from taking place. It needs more, many more valuable, unfortunate victims. In the present world, the most beautiful thing is a victim.

When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for those who are hungry, for those who have no schools, for those who are deprived, we are not departing from God's promise. He comes to free us from sin, and the church knows that sin's consequences are all such injustices and abuses. The church knows it is saving the world when it undertakes to speak also of such things.

Apartheid continues to thrive with the same strength but in a different form, and this puts a heavier burden on the shoulders of those who wish to fight against Apartheid types of injustice.

Though Apartheid policies were officially rescinded in South Africa, the Apartheid mentality and various other forms of racial discrimination still thrive in the world.

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.

The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

We live, deaf to the land beneath us,Ten steps away no one hears our speeches,But where there's so much as half a conversationThe Kremlin's mountaineer will get his mention.