Quotes about Injustice
I could be rearrested at any time; there could be attempts of my life. I have no idea. You are dealing with totally unpredictable people and a nation where the rule of law means nothing.
— Roy Bennett
Why doesn't anyone care that the schools in Harlem have been unsuccessful for half a century? Why is this not a big deal? To me, it's a terrible deal.
— Eva Moskowitz
The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but no money for actually uplifting the people of Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri and around the nation.
— Jesse Jackson
It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.
— Alveda King
If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.
— Henry David Thoreau
My real story is this: I am the citizen daughter of immigrant parents who were deported when I was 14. My older brother was also deported.
— Diane Guerrero
She is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.
— Oscar Wilde
The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.
— Alexander Hamilton
I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen
— Joyce Meyer
I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.
— Bob Goff