Quotes about Injustice

Every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add… artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers—who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us.

America was built on segregation. It's gonna stay segregated until everyone's equal, and that ain't gonna happen when it's a capitalistic society.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.

A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.

They - you know, when we walked in - when I walked in with the two white men that had carried me down - and they cursed me all the way down. They would ask me questions, and when I would try to answer, they would tell me to hush.