Quotes about Injustice
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.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
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.
— MC Ren
Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
— Abraham Lincoln
The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
— Pope John Paul II
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.
— Jim Bakker
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.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
The issue of race is not an issue of choice. It's an issue of birth.
— Tony Evans
It's easier to blame the person with less power.
— Gloria Steinem