Quotes about Injustice

To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceases to be a man.

America will not allow her children to love her. She seems bent on compelling those who would be her warmest friends, to be her worst enemies.

While I lived with my master in St. Michael's, there was a white young man, a Mr. Wilson, who proposed to keep a Sabbath school for the instruction of such slaves as might be disposed to learn to read the New Testament. We met but three times, when Mr. West and Mr. Fairbanks, both class-leaders, with many others, came upon us with sticks and other missiles, drove us off, and forbade us to meet again. Thus ended our little Sabbath school in the pious town of St. Michael's.

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.