Quotes about Injustice
The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.
— Bill Gates
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
— Frederick Douglass
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
— Woodrow Wilson
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.
— Dan Quayle
It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.
— Oscar Romero
As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.
— Kerry Washington
It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood.
— Pope Francis
Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.
— Desmond Tutu
What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.
— Martin Luther