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Quotes About Injustice

It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.
~ William H. Wharton
The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed.
~ Michael Parenti
State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.
~ Ernie Fletcher
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
~ Frederick Douglass
Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.
~ Louis D. Brandeis
The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets.
~ Vusi Mahlasela
The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!
~ Louis Armstrong
Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
~ Tacitus
One law for the lion and ox is oppression.
~ William Blake
My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.
~ Orson Scott Card, Heartfire
There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.
~ Howard Zinn
Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.
~ Terry Pratchett
Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about.
~ L. Neil Smith
Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.
~ Walt Whitman
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.
~ Jessica Mitford
So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.
~ John Bright
The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Ive always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.
~ Steven Van Zandt
If I said what I was really thinking about this f**ked up world, the government would assassinate me like all the other people they've killed.
~ Lee Ryan
Our nonviolence vis-?-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.
~ Marco Rubio
The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.
~ Mao Zedong
The British government is a murder machine.
~ Peter King