Quotes About Injustice

Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?

When it comes to Jews, you have a two-thousand-year memory, but when it comes to us Palestinians, you have a sixty-year amnesia.

It wasn't fair, he thought — Aaron having no family and Tamara having her scary family and now Jasper. Soon, there would be no one left for him to hate without feeling bad about it.

Have you ever noticed how good things go to those who hate?

If you owe ten pounds to the Bank of England, you get thrown in jail, but if you owe a million pounds, they invite you to sit on the Board

Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak.

witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages.

It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people... catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.

Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.