Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Quotes

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

Bottom 10 Percent progressives are not enthusiastic about concentrations of wealth. But that's not what keeps them up at night. Their focus is on deprivation and lack of opportunity. They're motivated by empathy for people who are suffering, rather than outrage over unjustified wealth.

Terrorism thrives when the gap between the 'haves' and 'have nots' becomes so wide and when the 'have nots' reach the point of such desperation, pain, and agony that they have nothing to lose.

I learnt a hard fact: that dignity is a luxury in our country.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really face the problems that people who are pushed to the point of striking know all about, but others know practically nothing about.

Capitalists control the machineries. They create difficulties to the workers. Consequently rationalism, which has to lead the way for peaceful life to all, has resulted in causing poverty and worries to the people because of dominating forces.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

No religion will ever make me forget the condition of our people in this country...No God, no religion, no nothing will make me forget it until it stops, until it's elimitnated. I want to make that point clear.

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

The human condition for the vast majority of people on this planet for the entire time of what humanity has been here has been bondage and tyranny, dictatorship, pestilence. That's really what American exceptionalism is, when you get right down to it.

Poor people always lose in struggles.

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

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

All oppression creates a state of war.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.