Quotes About Injustice

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

I don't understand why any country is given a chance to make its point of view seen and heard by the world, and Russia is not given that chance.

When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world.

We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur.

I've seen people get robbed, seen people get shot with my own eyes, for pointless petty crimes.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

American history is not clean.

I'll tell you what colonial experience is.

My big entrance into this industry was playing an enslaved person, which is an absolute clich of people of color.

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

No matter that you're a British citizen, no matter that you were born here - your skin colour means you do not have the same rights as others to express critical opinions about your own country.

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

A white man of authority don't ever want to admit to someone of colour they was wrong.

I didn't want to be a 16-year-old kid being beaten up by a bunch of people who didn't like me 'cause of the colour of my skin.

I know there are girls of colour out there who have felt the same as me. We have a massive problem with racism, which is built into our society.

Sometimes I felt I was being treated differently to my bandmates because of the colour of my skin.

The apartheid people were actors, and they had to act out their part in their beliefs every day. That's why we always saw them as being comedic.

There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning - that is something African-Americans are very much cognizant of.

'Get Out' definitely brought it to the mainstream, but you can look back at the original 'Night of the Living Dead' and that's definitely a commentary on racism.

There have been moments when comments have been made and because I'm strong enough to speak up about it, it's helped me. Having the strength and confidence to speak up about racism is what matters. Some people don't realise that what they are saying is wrong - they think it's acceptable.

I spent 30 years on Alabama's death row for a crime I did not commit.

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.

My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.