Quotes about Injustice
Faith is born out of suffering, and suffering is faith's most powerful contradiction. This is the Christian dilemma. The only meaningful Christian response is to resist unjust suffering and to accept the painful consequence of that resistance.
— James H. Cone
Living in a world of white oppressors, blacks have no time for a neutral God.
— James H. Cone
Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.
— Abraham Lincoln
I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.
— Elie Wiesel
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
— St. Augustine
You look back and reflect and there are things you could do better - even when there's been an 'experience that was unjust.
— Chris Hughton
Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.
— Hillary Clinton
The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
— Oscar Wilde
When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by instances of that kind.
— Desmond Tutu
Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine
— Frederick Douglass
In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that must change.
— Hillary Clinton