Quotes about Injustice

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.

Unfair suffering is never funny.

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.

If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.

I was so sure it would happen. That the past was an abused record with no choice but to repeat itself at the crack and no power on earth could lift the arm that held the needle.

Mister was allowed to be and stay what he was. But I wasn't allowed to be and stay what I was [...] School teacher changed me. I was something else and that something else was less than a chicken sitting in the sun on a tub. (Paul D.)

Well, feel this, why don't you? Feel how it feels to have a bed to sleep in and somebody there not worrying you to death about what you got to do each day to deserve it. Feel how that feels. And if that don't get it, feel how it feels to be a colored woman roaming the roads with anything God made liable to jump on you. Feel that.

It may even be that some of us know what it is like to be actually hated—hated for things we have no control over and cannot change.