Mithali Raj Quotes

Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves.

Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?

When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.

Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.

The meanest worm that crawls upon the earth, when trampled upon, will endeavor to recoil and strike back, and I say that the guilt of the rebellion does not rest with these men [the Metis rebels] so much as those who provoked them.

Rebellion is the necessary result of injustice. It may not always achieve its purpose, or be intended to do so, but a conviction of injustice endured must precede articulate rebellion. Nor is it always certain that injustice will be followed by rebellion – it would be very much better for the world if this was the case. But where the victims of aggression or custom are ignorant and disunited, the opportunities for reasoned and effective revolt are practically reduced to nothing…

The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it's likely to harm them.

I feel like, as a female, I am maybe hyper-sensitive to feeling pushed into a corner or somebody taking a song a different way.

Any time something goes wrong, Republicans pick on women and minorities.

Sometimes I feel that my message has not been clearly heard. But that is not my fault because I feel like too much is going on in terms of women being victims.

My only crime is breathing and existing.

A lot of things have hurt me about the industry. I don't want to be very vocal about this but it's an everyday fight with Bollywood. It's like a love hate relationship.

I am a man more sinned against than sinning

Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.

Don't kick me when I'm down.

I feel that discrimination and hierarchy is something that people have to face constantly.

The forces of violence and oppression don't care about the innocent.

The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.

Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were the target of the Holocaust, the ultimate abomination. Yet, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept this as a reason why the wrongs done to them.

No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.

What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully held her unworthy of a voice in its councils, while it recognized as the political superiors of all the noble women of the nation the negro men just emerged from slavery, and not only totally illiterate, but also densely ignorant of every public question.

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.