Quotes about Injustice

I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one. And

Men would support us, we are told, if only we learned how to ask in the right way. It's a subtle and effective way of not only blaming the victim, but making the victim blame herself.

They knew that in the 1970s the Indian Health Service of the U.S. government admitted that thousands of Native women had been sterilized without their informed consent. Some called it a long-term strategy for taking over Indian lands, and others said it was the same racism that had sterilized black women in the South.

if you've experience discrimination in one form, you're more likely to recognise it in another.

I'm not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.

One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.

Many men are slaves because one is an oppressor; let us hate the oppressor. Now, however, there is amongst an increasing few a tendency to reverse this judgment, and to say, One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.

People who are underprivileged have more to grieve and have more to overcome.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.