Unjust Practices Quotes

I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas.

A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property or for any other improper or wicked project, will be less apt to invade the whole body of the Union than a particular member of it.

Are whisper networks good? That question itself is a little flat. Whisper networks arise in a vacuum of justice. They alleviate an untenable condition; they do not actually address it.

A government, … protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

White men come in like a river. They told us that they only wanted a little land. But we knew better.

The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.

They kill people here who stand up for their rights The system's just too damned corrupt It's always the same, the name of the game Is who do you know higher up

Precedents establish expectations of what is fair. Does fairness require the perpetuation of unfair, unwise, or even dangerous past precedents?

South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk.

Good laws derive from evil habits.

The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.

It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation.

People across metro Detroit face discrimination every day in housing, employment, insurance - the list goes on. It might not always be explicit and in your face, but my residents know when they're being mistreated.

At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

We are using the criminal justice system to try and achieve political ends in this country …. It is part of a vast right wing conspiracy.

One must not confuse the fight against corruption with the persecution of the rich or wealthy families.

On 'Insecure,' Molly works at a law firm, and there's scenes where her boss doesn't value her voice and doesn't value her efforts. And we had a lot of women tweeting 'Me too' in that situation. We're saying, 'Hey, no more. Not on our watch.'

… an old idea is not necessarily a good one — slavery is an old idea; so is polygamy.

Just because of the #MeToo movement in Hollywood, after Oscar-winning actresses including Angelina Jolie came out and spoke against Harvey Weinstein, we also want to talk about something that has been happening in Bollywood for long; like several years ago, Mamta Kulkarni had spoken against filmmaker Rajkumar Santoshi.

L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.

I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.

I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you.

'Custom is the great deadener.' There is no doubt that we of the white race are going on obliviously supporting customs that would seem abhorrent and incredible to a higher and more brotherly civilization.

… the only way to remedy what everyone concedes has grown to be a great evil.

A radical shift in policy brings almost as many injustices in its train as does the continuance of a policy that has outlived its usefulness.