Quotes About Injustice

Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.

The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history.

I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.

It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail.

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.