James Fintan Lalor Quotes

Man has set man against man, Washed against unwashed.

Most of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and have nots.

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

Social change can be painful for all involved—oppressor and oppressed.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

This is a hard job to do …. We represent the underdog, and that makes the top dogs angry.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

Liberty and equality do not … sit happily side by side. Indeed, in many respects they are in conflict.

If you are on the wrong side of society you can’t win.

Throughout our history - and that of the world - it's always come down to the friction between the haves and have-nots or between the average Joes and the large corporations. So that's a recurring theme in my work.

The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.

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.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

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

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.