Quotes about Injustice
Everyone is very aware that, not only do we have a race problem, but it's so pervasive that it affects national and global politics on a scale that I don't think a lot of people imagined.
— Justin Simien
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.
— Anne Frank
There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
— Jesse Jackson
God said, I am tired of kings,I suffer them no more;Up to my ear the morning bringsThe outrage of the poor.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Had dad chosen to use violence he would have been immediately annihilated.
— Martin Luther King III
Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.
— Yulia Tymoshenko
A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.
— Malcolm X
It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.
— John Updike
The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation in the Life that is the Light of men.
— Thomas Merton