#injustice

I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#art #began #came #cinema #continued

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#easy #injustice #justice #relatively #sting

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination. ↗

— Luigi Barzini

#brave #desperate #face #few #imagination

Delay in justice is injustice. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#injustice #justice

A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control if it is to address meaningfully the racial realities of our time. Any racial justice movement, to be successful, must vigorously challenge the public consensus that underlies the prevailing system of control. Nooses, racial slurs, and overt bigotry are widely condemned by people across the political spectrum; they are understood to be remnants of the past, no longer reflective of the prevailing public consensus about race. Challenging these forms of racism is certainly necessary, as we must always remain vigilant, but it will do little to shake the foundations of the current system of control. The new caste system, unlike its predecessors, is officially colorblind. We must deal with it on its own terms. ↗

— Michelle Alexander

#injustice #jim-crow #racism #age

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#angst #idealism #injustice #status-quo #youth

This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America ↗

— Paul Robeson

#america #equal-rights #fighting #injustice #race

Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#free-speech #freedom #guarding #guards #injustice

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. ↗

— Voltaire

#atheism #atrocities #barbarity #injustice #religion

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#democracy #inclination #injustice #justice #makes