A. S. Byatt Quotes

Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others.

See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.

Social injustice is such a familiar phenomenon ... that it is readily regarded as something natural, even by its victims.

… cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

Sexual harassment doesn't discriminate. You can wear a skirt, hospital scrubs, army fatigues. You can be young or old, married or single, black or white. You can be a Republican, a Democrat or an Independent. I heard from so many women: police officers, members of our military, financial assistants, actors, engineers, lawyers, bankers, accountants, teachers ... journalists. Sexual harassment, it turns out, is not about sex. It's about power, and about what somebody does to you to try and take away your power. And I'm here today to encourage you to know that you can take that power back.

I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.

I certainly feel injustice. I'm no foreigner to that, whether it's real or perceived.

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.

I'm tired of seeing people dying every day; I'm tired of seeing people go to jail for nothing.

When the state machinery defends criminals and the public prosecutors collude with the accused in certain cases and the victims are members of a particular community, then 'Justice to all' is empty rhetoric.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

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

I would say that it's wrong to milk someone's misery.

In martial arts, for every attack, there is a counter you can throw. Somebody traps you, you can throw a hook. But there is no counter for bias.

Civil rights icons, famous journalists, big-time movie producers may all have credits to their name that we can recognize and be grateful for, but their record of good works cannot excuse their harassment of women.

Unfairness is everywhere.

I like to stay away from writing about good versus evil. I think the world is more complicated.

I know so many girls that have felt like they've been taken advantage of. Not only in the music business, but in every single career out there.

Our long history of exploiting women's bodies and suppressing their voices had a direct impact on my case and other women's lives.

The world is not equal, unfortunately.

Some people in India want to increase corruption and dishonesty in the name of caste.

The death penalty has been one of many examples where racial discrimination has played out. You can see it in the simple fact that someone convicted of the same crime is more likely to face the death penalty if they are black.

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