Asma Jahangir Quotes

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

There will always be people treated badly, which I feel is basic human nature and difficult to eliminate.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

The amount of suffering I've seen is beyond belief. The amount of inequality is beyond belief.

Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.

To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.

The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us.

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

I thank God, I shall never again visit a slave-country. To this day, if I hear a distant scream, it recalls with painful vividness my feelings, when passing a house near Pernambuco, I heard the most pitiable moans, and could not but suspect that some poor slave was being tortured, yet knew that I was as powerless as a child even to remonstrate.

The world is always terrible.

I think when you see that the status quo creates pain and anguish and suffering, what I am most afraid of is that things will stay the same.

Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

...and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.