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Quotes About Injustice

Little girls aren't naturally lost," Karen said, frowning as she scanned saucepans. "Someone makes them that way.
~ Patrick Ness
it's been obvious since the beginning that wars make no sense. You kill people to tell them you want to stop killing them. Monsters of men, I think. And women.
~ Patrick Ness
I fight them every time I bandage the blackened eye of a woman, every time I remove shrapnel from a bomb victim. That's my war. That's the war I'm fighting.
~ Patrick Ness
That's a load of crap!" Conor shouted. "He didn't need to kill her. The people were behind him. They would have followed him anyway." The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster. And so the injustice that I saw, the reason that I came walking, was for the queen, not the prince.
~ Patrick Ness
He said enough to bring me walking, the monster said. I know injustice when I see it.
~ Patrick Ness
Soothe your throats. Injustice has not followed you here.
~ Patrick Ness
I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.
~ Patrick O'Brian
By the end of October, the night riders had forced out all but a handful of the 1,098 members of the African American community - who left in their wake abandoned homes and schools, stores and livestock, and harvest-ready crops standing in the fields. Overnight, their churches stood empty, the rooms where they used to sing "River of Jordan" and "Go Down Moses" now suddenly, eerily quiet.
~ Unknown
We beat them with stones at first, and they had guns. Our people had to go and get guns. Wouldn't they have been right stupid people to stand there? Our people got shotguns at first and then got better weapons. And then the British, who were supposed to protect us, came in and raided our homes. What way could you fight? So you went down and you blew them up.
~ Unknown
We beat them with stones at first, and they had guns. Our people had to go and get guns. Wouldn't they have been right stupid people to stand there? Our people got shotguns at first and then got better weapons. And then the British, who were supposed to protect us, came in and raided our homes. What way could you fight? So you went down and you blew them up. That was the only thing left. If they hadn't interfered with us, there probably would be no Provo army today.
~ Unknown
Department of Justice concluded its investigation without so much as interviewing any member of the family. The authorities were so deferential toward the Sacklers that nobody had even bothered to question them.
~ Unknown
It't hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Has deducido una verdad universal: la realidad suele ser injusta.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Did you know I never paid taxes before I came here? The Edema don't own property, as a rule." He gestured at the inn. "I never understood how galling it was. Some smug bastard with a ledger comes into town, makes you pay for the privilege of owning something.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I never understood how galling it was. Some smug bastard with a ledger comes into town, makes you pay for the privilege of owning something.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born. My
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Sex slaves can rarely defend themselves, and the dead are even worse off in this instance than the living. The
~ Unknown
One in four girls will experience sexual abuse by the time she is sixteen, and 48 percent of all rapes involve a young woman under the age of eighteen. It's not surprising then, that in a society where sexual abuse of young women is rampant, many women never share their stories. They remain hidden and invisible.
~ Unknown
Fred didn't swim either. He said Indians didn't swim.
~ Patti Smith
and men falling like chess pieces carved from the weight of centuries of indiscretions and the slaughter of worshippers and the guns and the guns and the guns and the guns.
~ Patti Smith
Forcing smoke down my lungs is pulmonary rape. It invades my body against my will, and it's not fair.
~ Patty Young
Clearly the use of a vaccine in the present does not cause the one who is immunized to share in the immoral intention or action of those who carried out the abortion in the past. Human history is filled with injustice. Acts of wrongdoing in the past regularly rebound to the benefit of descendents who had no hand in the original crimes. It would be a high standard indeed if we were to require all benefits that we receive in the present to be completely free of every immorality in the past.
~ Paul A. Offit
Today we see studies on mentally retarded children as monstrous.
~ Paul A. Offit