Quotes about Injustice

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

The issue of race is not an issue of choice. It's an issue of birth.

It's easier to blame the person with less power.

Nina Simone sacrificed so much to be as bold as she was about being black and about being female in an era where that could have cost her life.

I hate a bully, and I hate racists.

I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

You haven't got a chance kid,' he had told him glumly.'They hate Jews.' 'But I'm not Jewish,' answered Clevinger. 'It will make no difference,' Yossarian promised, and Yossarian was right. 'They're after everybody.

It's only that I feel an injustice has been committed. Why should I have somebody else's malaria and you have my dose of clap?

Pharaoh is clearly a metaphor. He embodies and represents raw, absolute, worldly power. He is, like Pilate after him, a stand-in for the whole of the empire. As the agent of the "empire of force," he reappears in many different personae.9

The wonder of the Exodus narrative is that the role of pharaoh continues to be reperformed in many times and many places. "Pharaoh" reappears in the course of history in the guise of coercive economic production. In every new performance, the character of Pharaoh makes claims to be absolute to perpetuity; the character is regularly propelled by fearful greed; the character imposes stringent economic demands on a vulnerable labor force.

Silence and tacit consensus always, without fail, protect privilege. That is why the privileged are characteristically silencers.