Quotes about Injustice

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

In South Africa in 1987, apartheid was still going strong. Some of the most brutal race laws had been relaxed, but they hadn't yet been repealed. There was still a lot of tension.

No man-made system is perfect, and the system of oppression is no exception. It is subject to fatigue, to cracks, which you are the likelier to discover the longer your term.

If you tried to right all the wrongs in the world you'd exhaust yourself in under an hour.

truth, she didn't care for rules of any sort; rules made little sense to a person who had grown up in a world without compassion or pity, where there was no moral code by which to abide.

he thought of Jesus as a great teacher, a rebel who refused to see the poor and disenfranchised mistreated.

Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

There is a special grief felt by the children and grandchildren of those who were forbidden to read, forbidden to question or to know.

You telling me I won't even be able to love my own say, say Miss Eleanor Jane. No, say Sofia. That's not what I'm telling you. I'm telling you I won't be able to love your own son. You can love him just as much as you want to. But be ready to suffer the consequences. That's how the colored live.

The defeat that had frightened her in the faces of black men was the defeat of black forever defined by white.

I thought black people superior people. Not simply superior to white people, because even without thinking about it much, I assumed almost everyone was superior to them; but to everyone. Only white people, after all, would blow up a Sunday school class and grin for television over their victory, i.e. , the death of four small black girls.

She say, Miss Celie, You better hush. God might hear you. Let 'im hear me, I say. If he ever listened to poor colored women the world would be a different place, I can tell you.