Meaningful Quotes. Thoughtful Insights. Helpful Tools.
Advanced Search Options

Quotes about Injustice

And along the streets the blood of the children flowed simply, like the blood of children…Come and see the blood in the streets, come and see the blood in the streets.
- Isabel Allende
It was then that I understood that the days of Colonel Garcia and all those like him are numbered, because they have not been able to destroy the spirit of these women.
- Isabel Allende
The Indians' insistence on clinging to their customs had to be the work of Satan there was no other explanation which is why the friars went out to hunt down and lasso the deserters and then whipped their doctrine of love and forgiveness into them.
- Isabel Allende
Two-thirds of those evacuated at that time had been born in the United States and were American citizens. Standing in long lines, the Japanese had to wait for hours in front of the desks of the officials, who took down their names and handed out labels for them to wear around their necks with their identity number, the same as for their luggage.
- Isabel Allende
Today the nanas have become so emancipated that the lords of their domains prefer to hire illegal immigrants from Peru, whom they can mistreat as badly as they used to their Chilean servant girls.
- Isabel Allende
'Mean to' don't pick no cotton.
- Anonymous
No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.
- Leland Ryken
I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.
- Franklin Pierce
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
- Audre Lorde
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
- CS Lewis
The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.
- Abraham Lincoln