Quotes About Injustice

How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].

Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society.

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.

A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.

Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands killed in the name of corporate "liberation".

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.

The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.

When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.

I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No.

Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December .

Governments neither help us to get out of poverty and hunger, nor let us die. It is time that we must pick one.

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

I just couldn't move. History had me glued to the seat.

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.