Quotes About Injustice

There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

History is the study of the world's crime

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.

The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

There's a long history of saying certain people shouldn't be voting. And, unfortunately, the people who are often left out of these conversations are people who are black and brown.

Recorded history is wrong. It's wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Since Eve negotiated Adam, I am the most disadvantaged negotiator in history of mankind. I have no army, no navy, no air force, no economy.

We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.

Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.

Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.