Quotes About Injustice

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

The thing with mutants is, they've always stood in for the disenfranchised and downtrodden. And no matter how hard they fight, how hard they work to live among humans, the humans always push back with new laws and new ways of hurting mutants.

You know, I'm one of millions of undocumented people in this country who are living kind of under the shadows. And in many ways, coming out, it was my way of - at the end of the day, I think we have to tell the truth about this immigration system. And because of that, I had to tell the truth about myself.

In many ways the Palestinians are the new Indians, the Indians of Israel.

I felt that if the public found out that a black man made a fool of David Duke, his attempts at a political career would have fallen by wayside.

We have got to move away from the concept of race and color because that is what apartheid is. We cannot end apartheid if we retain these concepts.

We cannot reform institutional racism or systemic policies if we are not actively engaged. It's not enough to simply complain about injustice; the only way to prevent future injustice is to create the society we would like to see, one where we are all equal under the law.

We cannot denounce white supremacy and allow its endorsers to continue serving in our government.

We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.

We cannot forget the little things we take for granted in America that remain the disdain of dictators and terrorists throughout the world.

What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?

We cannot expect loyalty to an unjust regime.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.

Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.

Stand and fight for those who are not weak but have yet to discover the strength that the evil of this world has done its best to conceal.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices.

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.