Quotes about Injustice

I esteem myself a good, persistent hater of injustice and oppression, but my resentment ceases when they cease, and I have no heart to visit upon children the sins of their fathers.

Three dominant evils prevailed—clerical concubinage, simony, and corruption within the church.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

These negroes aren't asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation.

Four hundred years the white man has had his foot-long knife in the black man's back--and now the white man starts to wiggle the knife out, maybe six inches! The black man's supposed to be grateful? Why, if the white man jerked the knife out, it's still going to leave a scar!