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“He could almost hear the wail of pain that went up from his heart. It was a sharp terrible personal pain the kind of pain that comes only when someone to whom you have never done any harm turns on ...”
“Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.”
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
“The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.”
“It is a policemans duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policemans duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of...”
“To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep flower pot, you get a perfect replica of the tallest tree, but it is only inches tall. The...”
“Some people," Aunt Emily answered sharply, "are so busy seeing all sides of every issue that they neutralize concern and prevent necessary action. There's no strength in seeing all sides unless you...”
“Oh, he understood very well that for the meek soul of a simple Russian, exhausted by grief and hardship and, above all, by constant injustice and sin, his own or the world's, there was no stronger ...”
“The re-evaluation and rediscovery of minority art (including the cultural minority of women) is often conceived as a matter of remedying injustice and exclusiveness through doing justice to individ...”
“Money will make a leader turn a blind eye to injustice.”
“Kindness is seen as weakness and intelligence worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch.”
“Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”
“There is a way that the men speak to women that reminds me too much of Pa. They listen just long enough to issue instructions. They dont even look at women when women are speaking. They look at the...”
“Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch.”
“She reminded him of (...) all the shivering, stupefying misery in a world that never yet had provided enough heat and food and justice for all but an ingenious and unscrupulous handful. What a lous...”
“...she robbed me blind, the bitch!...and she's still at it! everyone who's ever done me wrong, robbed me, repudiated me, pillaged me has never suffered...and never will suffer! you could call it th...”
“...a broken nation, under siege, divisible, without liberty and injustice for a lot...”
“I think silence is one of the failures of people today. When they see an injustice or intolerance, and they stay silent - that's the worst thing.”
“If the world is unjust, get drunk, wave a sword, then cut off heads.”
“The world is full of grief and no peace but every body has a different way of ending it.”
