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1. “It look like the lord just work for wite folks cause ever sens i wasn nothin but a litle boy i been on my on haulin water to the fiel on that ol water cart wit all them dime bukets an that dipper just hittin an old dorthy just trottin and trottin an me up their hittin her wit that rope...”

Thomas Jefferson

Inequality, Racism, Hardship, Social Injustice, Historical Perspective

2. “Who said I want to go to war? If I do, it ain't the same war the President wants to go to. No, sir, I been hanging on a rope in Alabama too long.”

Langston Hughes

War, Racism, Politics, Social Injustice, Personal Protest

3. “I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.”

Langston Hughes

American Identity, Freedom, Social Injustice, Metaphor, Civil Rights

4. “When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.”

Simone Weil

Class, Murder, Authority, Dehumanization, Spiritual Exclusion, Social Injustice

5. “I couldn’t stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.”

Sylvia Plath

Gender Equality, Social Injustice, Double Standards, Gender, Equality, Standards

6. “Cry about the simple hell people give other people- without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they’re people too.”

Harper Lee

Social Injustice, Racial Cruelty, Thoughtless Harm, Injustice, Cruelty, Harm

7. “Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced.”

Harper Lee

Social Injustice, Prejudice Effects, Human Conflict, Prejudice, Conflict, Injustice

8. “The status of ‘native’ is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

Colonial Condition, Social Injustice, Power Dynamics, Native, Settler, Oppression

9. “I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in Hell and the poor on earth; as for me, I am on the side of men and I will not leave it.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

Contempt Justice, Existential Critique, Social Injustice, Philosophy, Society, Morality

10. “To whomever gives a kiss or a blow Render a kiss or blow But to whomever gives when you are unable to return Offer all the hatred in your heart For you were slaves and he enslaves you.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

Love Hate, Reciprocal Exchange, Social Injustice, Hatred, Slavery, Betrayal

11. “It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

Human Nature, Social Injustice, Animal Comparison, Morality, Justice, Humanity

12. “When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

Class Warfare, Economic Inequality, Social Injustice, War, Oppression, Poverty

13. “Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.”

Albert Camus

Irony And Poverty, Social Injustice, Hunger And Help, Irony, Poverty, Injustice

14. “An unpleasant nest of nasty, materialistic and aggressive people, careless of the rights of others, imperfectly democratic at home though quick to see the minor slaveries of others, and greedy without end.”

Isaac Asimov

Materialism Greed, Social Injustice, Human Rights, Democracy, Corruption, Society

15. “If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.”

Toni Morrison

Social Injustice, Racial Hierarchy, Equality Struggles, Injustice, Hierarchy, Struggles

16. “Well, you not the first by a long shot. An integrated army is integrated misery. You all go fight, come back, they treat you like dogs. Change that. They treat dogs better.”

Toni Morrison

Social Injustice, War Reality, Equality Struggles, Injustice, Reality, Struggles

17. “A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment.”

Toni Morrison

Racial Identity, Unrealistic Beauty, Social Injustice, Identity, Beauty, Injustice

18. “I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.”

Toni Morrison

Social Injustice, Racial Burden, Emotional Struggle, Injustice, Race, Struggle

19. “We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.”

Victor Hugo

Modern Slavery, Women's Rights, Social Injustice, Feminine Oppression, Prostitution, Human Rights

20. “The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.”

Helen Keller

Labor And Capitalism, Social Injustice, Worker Rights, Political Systems, Capitalism, Labor

21. “Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.”

Helen Keller

War Origins, Social Injustice, Exploitation Realities, Conflict Roots, War, Exploitation

22. “Until the color of a man's skin, is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes, me say war.”

Bob Marley

Racial Equality, Social Injustice, Human Rights, Anti-racism, Liberation, Unity

23. “Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.”

Virginia Woolf

Social Injustice, Gender Inequality, Oppression, Critique, Truth, Resilience

24. “White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.”

Muhammad Ali

Social Injustice, Historical Truths, Racial Oppression, Freedom Struggle, Societal Critique

25. “Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.”

Aristotle

Social Injustice, Equality Issues, Moral Equality, Justice Truth, Injustice Types

26. “People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized account of the American failure does not console me and it should not console anyone else.”

James Baldwin

Racial Wretchedness, American Failure, Social Injustice, Consolation Failure, Racial Tension, Reflection

27. “It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.”

James Baldwin

Helpless Victimization, Rare Man, Human Nature, Moral Weakness, Empathy Lack, Social Injustice

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