Quotes About Injustice

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten

For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.

Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.

I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since emancipation, I think you have to admit, maybe the Confederacy was on to something

If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.

In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27 million in bondage across the globe.

History! Read it and weep!

The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations.

Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.

History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

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

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.

All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement.

Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age.

Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them?

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.

We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.