Luisa Capetillo Quotes

Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.

What are your masses [of humanity] but mud to be ground underfoot, fuel to be burned for those who deserve it?

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

Aristocracy is always cruel.

The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.'

An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose; while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose, especially their lives.

Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a privileged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.

The system under which we live is owned and operated by people who do not deserve to run the world.

Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can't be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.