David Lammy Quotes

I demand simple justice. I am not here as beggar. I do not care so far as I am personally concerned whether you give me a seat or not. I will go back to my people and come here again.

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'

Don't judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the rest of them that's about to judge me. I got court dates every other month. It's me against the world - that's how I feel.

I'm a perpetually mad person. I hate injustice. As far as I'm concerned, I'm living to fight injustice. I'm living to fight the goddamned thing. I'm too mad to sleep.

A minority of malcontents, some justly, some unjustly, angry with the present state of things, will always exist in this world.

The poor man … will be swayed by his sense of injury against the men who try to hold what they have improperly won… the most awful passions will be let loose.

My life has been varied, involving many jobs, but I have always been impatient with injustice.

I do feel infuriated by the things I perceive to be unfair.

Injustice drives me crazy!

I don't want tea, I want justice!

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do.

Injustice can never be stood for.

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

I have a friend who says, 'The world doesn't need another angry dwarf!'

Many countries struggle and never get to the point where people have faith that laws are executed fairly.

The law is cruel.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.