Quotes about Injustice

Did he insult you? I mean us, the race? Not directly. Like most white racists, he was paternalistic. I would have preferred he slap me than that he talk down upon me. Then I could retaliate in kind.

A lack of courage allows us to remain blinded to our own history and deaf to the cries of our past.

In that second I was wounded. My mind struck a truth as an elbow can strike a table edge. A poor, uneducated servant in Africa was so secure he could ignore established White rudeness. No Black American I had ever known knew that security. Our tenure in the United States, though long and very hard-earned, was always so shaky, we had developed patience as a defense, but never as aggression.

Two hundred years ago when slavery was going on it was illegal to educate a slave, particularly to teach them to read. Why do you think that was? Because when you educate a man, you liberate a man.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Life isn't fair. Not from any direction. I live in the inconceivable grace of God every day of my life. That's not fair either.

Don't You have an answer to what these men are testifying against You?" But He kept silent and did not answer anything. Mark 14:60—61

Beloved, can you accept that Christ takes very personally the unfair things that happen to you?

I have observed the misery of My people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors. Exodus 3:7

Now the brave man. In dark hours he endures silently, uncomplaining. Reverencing the round of heaven's seasons, he does what must be done, sustaining himself with the certainty that to endure injustice with patience is the mark of piety and wisdom.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

Only those who are forgiven and who are willing to forgive will be capable of relentlessly pursuing justice without falling into the temptations to pervert it into injustice" (Exclusion and Embrace, 123).