Nelson Mandela Quotes

Someone has to stand up and speak for the freedoms of the little guy.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected – those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! – and listens to their testimony.

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

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…

Sometimes comforting the afflicted does require afflicting the comfortable.

My feminism does not demand that a woman have an equal opportunity to torture, alongside men. Torture is no less wrong because a woman, not a man, carries it out.

The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own time.

We deserve to live in a world where there's no impunity, but beyond this question of impunity, there are all these structures that are actually doing a disservice to our people.

We should get rid of 'tick box' measures that do nothing to address underlying inequality in areas like employment. And we should interrogate the claims of victimization made by some organizations to get their slice of pie.

I didn't need a harassment scandal to break out in Hollywood or misogynistic people in government to know they exist. Anybody who's a woman, a minority, or a thinking, perceiving male can see that it exists.

Trans justice calls on us to combat the blend of prejudices that demean the lives and diminish the autonomy of another person.

There has been great progress made in the world, but the fact that we're still fighting against discrimination means we've gone backwards and that's a shame.

The problem with Russia is not that it has laws restricting promotion of the gay lifestyle. The problem with Russia is that it has no laws that effectively constrain the strong or protect the weak.

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

America stands for freedom, liberty and justice for all. And it's not happening for all right now.

I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars of the system. I don’t want to romanticize them. But I do remember (in rough paraphrase) a statement I once read: “The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don’t listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

Oppression is as American as apple pie.

The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific.