Quotes About Injustice

One by one forging his laws, to be flungLike horseshoes at the head, the eye, or the groin.And every killing is a treatFor the broad-chested Ossete.

I am so ignorant that I cannot remember much from the list of the lesser stars. It may be that they have suffered indignities.

It is an injustice to say that Jesus Christ labored in redemption to make me a saint. Jesus Christ labored in redemption to redeem the whole world and to place it perfectly whole and restored before God.

We are not commissioned to preach salvation or sanctification—we are commissioned to lift up Jesus Christ (see John 12:32). It is an injustice to say that Jesus Christ labored in redemption to make me a saint. Jesus Christ labored in redemption to redeem the whole world and to place it perfectly whole and restored before the throne of God. The fact that we can experience redemption illustrates the power of its reality, but that experience is a by-product and not the goal of redemption.

To live a remote, retired, secluded life is the antipodes of spirituality as Jesus Christ taught it. The test of our spirituality comes when we come up against injustice and meanness and ingratitude and turmoil, all of which have the tendency to make us spiritual sluggards.

Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

So, on the whole, it was well with them, very well; and Patrasche, meeting on the highway or in the public streets the many dogs who toiled from daybreak into nightfall, paid only with blows and curses, and loosened from the shafts with a kick to starve and freeze as best they might — Patrasche in his heart was very grateful to his fate, and thought it the fairest and the kindliest the world could hold.

Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

En flykting, jagad som ett djur fast kungalik. En konung över folk i bur och folk av lik.

Al caer en el charco, estaba casi muerto. La mano se hundió en el agua sucia y trató de asir algo, de detener algo, de impedir que algo se fuera. Luego, quedó inmóvil. Un hombre se acercó y pateó su cara dos veces. Se subieron a los coches y se fueron. Sobre el cadáver de Héctor Belascoarán Shayne, siguió lloviendo.

país dominado por las deudas, el analfabetismo, el clero, los agiotistas y los militares.

Aconteça o que acontecer, continuaremos sendo uma pequena dor de cabeça sempre que cheguemos até esta Assembléia ou a qualquer outra, porque estamos dispostos a chamar as coisas pelos seus devidos nomes e a dizer que os representantes dos Estados Unidos são os agentes da repressão no mundo inteiro.

Los agraviados y sus herederos seguimos pensando que Iturbide no era de los nuestros. Y que mejor vaya y chingue a su madre.

rid of the Jews and turned them in to the Germans

He was more angry than he'd been in years, and helpless to do anything about it.

freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

Femeile pl?teau pentru toat? lumea: pentru b?rbat, pentru Dumnezeu, pentru lege, pentru boier, pentru lipsa de nutre? ?i chiar ?i pentru vremea rea.

We suffer, ironically, from our indifference to those among us who suffer.

Taking over from Arabs and Africans, it instituted the transatlantic slave trade, but it also engendered abolitionism and put an end to slavery before other nations did.

This is what free people never understand. A slave isn't a person who's being treated as a thing. A slave is a thing, as much in her own estimation as in anybody else's.

but perhaps no kindness was possible between owner and slave, only varying degrees of brutality?

When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl. Or the program director would slap his leg and say, "Why don't you sit down over here and we'll see if we can get that record played."

And it still goes on. And we still turn away.