Injustice Quotes

"Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most" "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will" "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent" "I swear to the Lord I still can't see why Democracy means everybody but me" "For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit." "Where justice is denied where poverty is enforced where ignorance prevails and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress rob and degrade them neither persons nor property will be safe" "He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it." "Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds." "The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own." "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle" "The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes" "I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them." "In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage." "The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice" "America never was America to me." "Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth." "The identity of the Negro in this country is a social and political and moral crucifixion which you would find very difficult to gaze at." "The goal of education should be to enable people to become active and engaged citizens, questioning and organizing against injustices." "I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen " "To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor"