Quotes about Injustice
Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.
- Heinrich Heine
There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
- Frederick Douglass
If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there.
- Sojourner Truth
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.
- Sojourner Truth
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.
- Sojourner Truth
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?
- Sojourner Truth
An unjust law is no law at all.
- St. Augustine
...oppression is as American as apple pie...
- Audre Lorde
Racism can be called our nation's own specific 'original sin.'
- Blase J. Cupich
Too many of our fellow Americans have to struggle each day against the obstacles imposed by racism, history and original sin. These obstacles are real, and they affect the way police departments have acted toward Black Americans.
- Conor Lamb
There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.
- Charles Spurgeon
When I left school I went onto the shop floor, working 12-hour shifts in a TV factory. My workmates were sharp, skilled and all capable of enjoying higher education - but they didn't have that opportunity.
- John McDonnell