Injustice Quotes - Page 36

• We should retain our anger in the face of injustice and not be shamed by that.

  Margaret Cho

  Faces, Should

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think we're in a time that calls for that level of courage, that level of resolve - you know, to be completely disgusted with injustice to the point that you will have to take some huge leaps of faith. And it may take one person leading many.

  Aisha Hinds

  Thinking, Leap Of Faith, Levels

  "At Last, Harriet Tubman Strides Onto Our Screens". Interview with David Greene, radio.wpsu.org. December 26, 2016.

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• Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically not by all; there is typically a fringe of dissidents. With very rare exceptions - in fact, it's hard to think of any - they suffer in one or another way; how depends on the nature of the society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Suffering, Way

  Source: chomsky.info

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• If your white privilege and class privilege protects you, then you have an obligation to use that privilege to take stands that work to end the injustice that grants that privilege in the first place.

  Ayelet Waldman

  White, Class, Firsts

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• We, the Black people of America, were chosen by Allah: Not to be "special" in the sense that we are better than others, but chosen because of the uniqueness of our position inside of America, and 460 years under slavery, neo-slavery, and injustice, to carry a message to the whole of humanity.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Years, America, People

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• This is what The Qur'an and the Bible have been prophesying - the end of a world of evil and injustice: We are at that time, now.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Evil, World, Ends

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The Vietnam War ended because of the campus situation. And so many other injustices have been corrected in the World today only thanks to the young people. So, young people especially have a responsibility for Tibet.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Responsibility, People

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• I believe that's a form of dangerous stereotyping, to ascribe permanent victimhood to any group. Groups have suffered powerful injustice, and yet when you say that, you also have to say that they triumphed, that they prevailed.

  Kevin Starr

  Powerful, Believe, Groups

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Certainly I'm not saying that you sit down and patiently accept injustice. I'm talking about a very strong force, where you stand up with all your might against an evil system, and you are not a coward.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Strong, Talking, Evil

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• For those people who fail to see the injustices that are occurring, in particular with the Muslim community, I think it's because you've sat in a seat of privilege for a long time, and you kind of choose to be myopic and not think of those people around you.

  Ibtihaj Muhammad

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Harriet Tubman didn't have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement, she was inspired by being sick and tired of the injustice she was experiencing and she knew she had a right to liberty or death, one or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.

  Aisha Hinds

  Tired, Mean, Sick

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice.

  Bayard Rustin

  Gay, People, Black

  Source: kalamu.com

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• If we want to do away with the injustice to gays it will not be done because we get rid of the injustice to gays. It will be done because we are forwarding the effort for the elimination of injustice to all. And we will win the rights for gays, or blacks, or Hispanics, or women within the context of whether we are fighting for all.

  Bayard Rustin

  Fighting, Gay, Winning

  Source: kalamu.com

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• I teach young people how the arts can be used to stand up against injustice.

  Renee Watson

  Art, People, Used

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in America is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally. I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

  David Oyelowo

  Believe, America, Racism

  Source: www.ncregister.com

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• Since most people only pay lip service to the injustices of the world, because one cannot affect the outcome of an atrocity like the Darfur genocide, veganism is your only chance to stand up for what's right several times a day, every day, for the rest of your life!

  Gary Yourofsky

  People, Rest Of Your Life, Lips

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• Nowadays we can sidestep traditional media with social media and technology that allows us to become citizen journalists, to fight against injustice by showing what's shamefully going on.

  Emily Raboteau

  Fighting, Technology, Social Media

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Once I looked into it, I was taken aback to learn that pretty much nothing by João Gilberto Noll was available in English translation. I was confident that I could find an editor and the readership for a translation: Noll is highly respected in Brazil, and at the same time divisive, somewhat like Hilda Hilst. Neither of them enjoys the universal acclaim you might associate with Clarice Lispector, whom everyone adores, myself included. Still, I considered it a tremendous injustice that Noll had not been more widely translated and was determined to rectify it.

  Adam Morris

  Taken, Determined, Enjoy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Remember what Hannah Arendt said when she was talking about fascism and totalitarianism. She said thoughtlessness is the essence of totalitarianism. So all of a sudden emotion becomes more important than reason. Ignorance becomes more important than justice. Injustice is looked over as simply something that happens on television. The spectacle of violence takes over everything.

  Henry Giroux

  Ignorance, Justice, Important

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Trump erases the ability to recognize suffering and to try to understand the conditions that produce it, the ability to become a moral witness in the face of injustices. Trump erases that. Trump appeals to a population in which that becomes irrelevant. And that is so dangerous, at this particular time.

  Henry Giroux

  Suffering, Trying, Moral

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We still live in a world of such gross injustice and inequality, that only privileged people like ourselves can afford to think of eros and art as top concerns in life. They are important, for sure, but I think it's high time to shift priorities around, away from selfish indulgence, and toward more concern for the wellbeing of so many others who suffer atrocities, injustice, and famine, all over the planet.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  Art, Selfish, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I have been swamped all my life with the idea of the unlimited potential and resources of the American Dream. Not only is this untrue, but it's an injustice to those people who don't have access to this utopia.

  Rick Alverson

  Dream, People, Utopia

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• When you have a nation that is suffering collectively from a situation of injustice - of violence, of imprisonment and closure and checkpoints, from a sense of vulnerability and of hopelessness - attitudes are going to be affected by these measures.

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Attitude, Suffering, Violence

  Source: progressive.org

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• Every single bit of entertainment is escapism. It's because you are saying, "Let's see what this other person's life is like." And also it's beyond escapism, its entertainment and art as such can elevate the species. The entertainer supposedly is the muse. They're the ones who tell you what is wrong with society in a humorous way. They're the ones who do an expose about this or a documentary about that about the injustice of this. So it can be a very powerful medium.

  Bruce Campbell

  Art, Powerful, Humorous

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

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• I feel that it's very important for young people to have a sense of history and do research and don't re-invent the wheel and don't think that you're the first martyr to discover social injustice but to take advantage of previous generations of activists and find out what they did and how they resolved things.

  Ana Castillo

  Thinking, People, Important

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