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I really think that this lie that we've been sold about disability is the greatest injustice.
Many, many years before, I had been fired from a job that I loved, and I would not stop talking about my innocence and the injustice and the betrayal and the deceipt, until finally, just like this woman, people were walking away from me, until I finally realized I wasn't just processing my feelings, I was feeding them.
We still struggle, you have to tell them, with seeing both the color and the character of young black men, but that you, and you expect them, to be part of the forces of change in this society that will stand against injustice and is willing, above all other things, to make a society where young black men can be seen for all of who they are.
There's also societal challenges: poverty in the midst of plenty, inequalities, conflict, injustice.
That day standing up in that stadium shouting at the President, I discovered why I was truly born, that I would no longer be silent in the face of injustice.
Injustice is about being wrongfully convicted.
Shoot a video; expose injustice; reveal the truth; show us what's wrong with the world; and maybe we can help make it right.
This deep sense of injustice drove me to become a doctor, eventually an eye surgeon, and in 2012, my wife and I packed our bags and moved to Kenya to try and give something back.
When we blame personalities instead of the clarity, the accountability, the measurement, we add injustice to ineffectiveness.
I think it was really the importance of the injustice that really struck me very forcibly.
And I know that we're not able to address some of that injustice because we're not on course for a safe world.
She wants to become a lawyer or a politician or something that can help fight injustice.
In all of these ways, the Atlantic slave trade was an injustice on a massive scale whose impact has continued long after its abolition.
And he said the problem was quite the opposite, that every cleric that she had talked to had shut her down and said that her rage, her sense of injustice in the world, was just going to get her in trouble.
As health professionals in our daily work, whether in the clinic or doing research, we are witness to great injustice: the homeless person who is unable to follow medical advice because he has more pressing priorities; the transgender youth who is contemplating suicide because our society is just so harsh; the single mother who has been made to feel that she is responsible for the poor health of her child.
There are demonstrations and even riots in the streets because of racial injustice.
The stories we tell about a movement like the First Intifada or the United States Civil Rights era matter deeply and have a critical influence in the choices Palestinians, Americans and people around the world will make next time they encounter an injustice and develop the courage to confront it.
Now, there are few words to describe the all-consuming feelings of vulnerability, shame, upset and injustice that I was ridden with in that moment and for the weeks to come.
And what's more, it can sometimes drown out the voices of those directly affected by the injustice, whose needs must be heard.
Returning to my analogy of getting back on our trains, another main concern I have about this noise that escalates from our online responses to injustice is that it can very easily slip into portraying us as the affected party, which can lead to a sense of defeatism, a kind of mental barrier to seeing any opportunity for positivity or change after a negative situation.
And Zelda wanted to protest, saying they had no right to his respect after this injustice they had caused him.
Revenge, or the expression of hatred towards those who have done us injustice may feel like a human instinct in the face of wrong, but we need to break out of these cycles if we are to hope to transform negative events of injustice into positive social change.
But I do want to encourage a more considered approach to the way we use it to respond to injustice.
Firstly: Why do I feel this injustice?
In situations where you can't go about thinking how you'd reverse this feeling of injustice, you can still think, maybe not what you can do, but what you can not do.
You can not build further walls by fighting injustice with more prejudice, more hatred.
You can not speak over those directly affected by an injustice.
Because we might be angry, upset and energized by injustice, but let's consider our responses.
Maybe you face some kind of inequality, or you've come across an injustice of some kind, sometimes an illness strikes, or you're born in some way disadvantaged, or perhaps underprivileged.
Many years ago, I began to use the term "intersectionality" to deal with the fact that many of our social justice problems like racism and sexism are often overlapping, creating multiple levels of social injustice.
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