Quotes about Injustice
Of all the wishes people had brought him—money, love, revenge—this seemed to him the most poignant and the one most deserving of fulfillment. A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes. His outrage grew and felt like power.
- Toni Morrison
If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have serious problem.
- Toni Morrison
When the land kills of its own volition we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live
- Toni Morrison
There really is no justice in a broken life!
- Kris Vallotton
The endless, unrelieved suffering of so many who are unable to deliver themselves is a reality we can no longer ignore.
- Carolyn Custis James
The Bible's message for women doesn't depend on ideal circumstances, but applies fully to those who live in the brutal outskirts of society where poverty engulfs, education is nonexistent, women's bodies are ravaged, and lives are in constant peril simply because they are female.
- Carolyn Custis James
Remember Luke, the suffering of one man is the suffering of all. Distances are irrelevant to injustice. If not stopped soon enough, evil will eventually reaches out to engulf all men, whether they have opposed it or ignored it.
- George Lucas
It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.
- Alexander Hamilton
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.
- Henry David Thoreau
Riots are the voices of the unheard.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
from the oppression of such freedom who would not welcome the liberation of confinement?
- JM Coetzee