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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.
Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
My purpose is to unite people, to bring us together. And above all, to be a champion for justice and a vehement opponent of oppression and justice.
There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.
You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.
If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.
While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.
We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.
The fact that 'Scrubs' is so popular in Israel is very important to me. I feel like I'm helping to cancel out the thousands of years of oppression the Jewish people have suffered.
I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.
Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression.
Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.
Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, class, ability, and ethnicity.
Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.
Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their version of the story is the correct one.
It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.
Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.
[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.
I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.
Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.
When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.
The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.
Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.
It takes one person to stand up for what he believes in. I believe there's been an injustice in Arizona. I oppose Bill 1070.
And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.
The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'
I don't think rappers have a responsibility, but for me, I gotta say something. I can't just look at injustice and keep quiet.
President Bush was disgusted by the Assad regime's oppression of the Syrian people as well as its support for terrorism, interference in Lebanon, and encouragement of jihadist attacks on Americans in Iraq.
The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.
I was never consulted before the bifurcation. Injustice has been done to Andhra Pradesh, which had no revenues.
We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.
A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression.
Legality and oppression are not unknown to run hand in hand.
That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.
In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change.
My dad is Arab. I'm not Muslim, but half of family is, so I see a lot of injustice happening in the portrayal of Muslims that they don't have any heroes.
Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. I'm not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.
We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.
A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.
An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
The whole reason behind my album 'Free TC' is seeing all that police brutality, injustice, mass incarceration.
People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.
...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and crime.... Nostation or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.
Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: you must give, if you want to get.
For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.
I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There's plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle the apparatus of oppression.
Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.
I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.
Awkwardness comes from the realization that, when you look around the world, it's difficult to identify anyone who isn't either the victim or the beneficiary of injustice.
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
I worked up a daily fury about some economic injustice because there were so many of them.
Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what they are.
