The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.
George CarlinTag: humor injustice work butterflies caterpillars
But Fate does iron wedges drive,
And always crowds itself betwixt.
Tag: injustice fate unfairness
They had no previous connection whatever with Connemara; but they saw connections where others who should have seen them simply looked the other way.
Joseph O'ConnorTag: injustice social-action social-justice social-development
Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
Joseph O'ConnorTag: love injustice freedom cruelties
The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.
Martha GellhornYou make someone into a object of – not so much of pity as of weakness, sickness, stupidity, inefectiveness, do you see what I mean? You hit them for their stupidity and their inability to respond, and when you’ve hurt them, marked them, they’re even more sick and ugly, aren’t they? And they’re afraid and cringing too. Oh, I know this isn’t very pleasant, but you did ask.”
“Go on” he said.
“So you’ve got a frightened, stupid, even disabled person, silenced, made ugly, and what can you do with someone like that, someone who’s unworthy of being treated well? You treat them badly because that’s what they deserve. One thinks of poor little kids that no one love because they’re dirty, sovered in snot and shit, and always screaming. So you beat them because they’re hateful, they’re low, they’re sub-human. That’s all they’re good for, being hit, being reduced even further.
Tag: injustice hatred prejudice violence discrimination
Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.
Ivo AndrićSome things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them.
William FaulknerWe live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.
Derrick A. BellTag: success equality injustice ethics democracy meritocracy social-justice prosperity systematic-oppression
I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.
Franz KafkaTag: injustice franz-kafka the-trial
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