Quotes About Injustice

Racism is taught in our society... it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

I was weeping for all of history's incredible atrocities against fellowmen, which seems to be mankind's greatest flaw...

Although most well-informed people have heard of Wallenberg today, many, including Jews, know less about him than about Oscar Schindler, who saved far fewer people and in any case profited from their forced labor.

Social justice is collective injustice. Actual justice is administered to individuals on the basis of their actions. Social justice is retributive punishment meted out by one party upon another group to enact vengeance and express a nurtured grievance.

Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

Think it over and see if it is not the law itself, the government which really creates crime by compelling people to live in conditions that make them bad. See how law and government uphold and protect the biggest crime of all, the mother of all crimes, the capitalistic wage system, and then proceeds to punish the poor criminal.

for that prevailing and increasing distrust of public engagements, and alarm for private rights, which are echoed from one end of the continent to the other. These must be chiefly, if not wholly, effects of the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations.

If the impulse and the opportunity be suffered to coincide, we well know that neither moral nor religious motives can be relied on as an adequate control. They are not found to be such on the injustice and violence of individuals, and lose their efficacy in proportion to the number combined together, that is, in proportion as their efficacy becomes needful.

Considerate men, of every description, ought to prize whatever will tend to beget or fortify that temper in the courts: as no man can be sure that he may not be to-morrow the victim of a spirit of injustice, by which he may be a gainer to-day. And every man must now feel, that the inevitable tendency of such a spirit is to sap the foundations of public and private confidence, and to introduce in its stead universal distrust and distress.

beget injustice and oppression of a part of the community, and engender schemes which, though they gratify a momentary inclination or desire, terminate in general distress, dissatisfaction, and disgust.

Olay, suçlu olanlar?n aç??a ç?kar?lamamas? nedeniyle Allah'a, dosya ise halledilmiÅŸ say?larak arÅŸive havale edildi." (Herzen, Suçlu Kim?, Tutanak)

Bloody bullocks, beggin' your pardon, gentlemen, but they'd take the wooden leg off a cripple to kindle a fire!

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Praise undeserved is satire in disguise/

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

It's absurd to see people who have spent a lifetime standing against racism, being accused of racism, by racists.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

When a people which has put up with an oppressive rule over a long period without protest suddenly finds the government relaxing its pressure, it takes up arms against it.

Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.

Were they really Aboriginal? Did they really belong to Warren Finch's ancestral country? Anthropologists, lawyers and other experts, like archeologists, sociologists and historians, were called to examine the genealogies of these people. And emergency legislation was bulldozed through parliament in the dead of night which claimed that Warren Finch was the blood relative of every Australian, which gave power to the government to decide where he was to be buried.

A society in which no one is willing to risk being called a troublemaker is a place where power is certain to be abused.