Quotes About Injustice

Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic.

When I write, I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not literature's side.

Sometimes, the fact that you're a footballer makes you think that racism can't happen to you because you bring that passion and you express a lot of things. When it happened to me, I couldn't believe it, and in that moment, I decided to walk off the pitch.

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers.

When governments fail us, what else can people do except take to direct action? When corporate power can so dominate government policy-making that whole communities are placed at risk, where else can people turn?

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.

Death can happen anywhere, but kids in Chicago, like 4 years old, can get shot. You don't really hear that in too many places.

The fact you have to pay 50p to use the loo in some places is the root of the world's issues.

It appears that there is a genocidal plan against Black people.

Whenever I was flying commercial, I would land in Chicago, and they would announce, 'Get your passports out.' It happened so often, I would walk to the front of the plane and say, 'You're looking for me. Just take me; it will be easier for everybody else.

'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired by their employer who turned around and hired illegal aliens for a lot less money. That had a big impact on me.

I didn't realize that the platform could be this big until Colin Kaepernick first took a knee. When he did that, that was kind of an 'aha' moment for me.

God just blessed me with a talent to play basketball. If I didn't have that talent, I possibly would've been that George Floyd.

It's impossible to play football in a world among men and not fight for equality.

If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.

I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.

Laughter does not please the mighty.

I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There's plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.

I think any time you're able to humanize the plight of the wrongfully incarcerated, then you're doing your job.

Farmer's plight and dismal condition of common man in Punjab forced me to join politics.

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

It is clear that there has been money, but it has gone to line the pockets of the corrupt.

Why do politicians and bureaucrats get salaries and perks from the pockets of the poor and do nothing for them? So I took action against the corrupt and the lazy.