Quotes about Injustice

In many cases it seemed to me that the ignorance of my race was being used as a tool with which to help white men into office, and that there was an element in the North which wanted to punish the Southern white men by forcing the Negro into positions over the heads of the Southern whites.

It is not possible for one man to hold another man down in the ditch without staying down there with him.

The wrong to the Negro is temporary, but to the morals of the white man the injury is permanent.

Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.

There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there.

And what is that religion that sanctions, even by its silence, all that is embraced in the 'Peculiar Institution'? If there can be any thing more diametrically opposed to the religion of Jesus, than the working of this soul-killing system - which is as truly sanctioned by the religion of America as are her minsters and churches - we wish to be shown where it can be found.

Oh Lord,' inquired Isabella, 'what is this slavery, that it can do such dreadful things? what evil can it not do?' Well may she ask, for surely the evils it can and does do, daily and hourly, can never be summed up, till we can see them as they are recorded by him who writes no errors, and reckons without mistake.

And a'n't, I a woman? I have borne thirteen chilern, and seen 'em mos' all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And a'n't I a woman?

An unjust law is no law at all.

...oppression is as American as apple pie...

Racism can be called our nation's own specific 'original sin.'