Paul Craig Roberts Quotes

I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.

Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application.

My only crime is breathing and existing.

But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

A nation that mistreats its own citizens is more likely to mistreat its neighbours.

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

I'm sick to death of the way the Big Two treat people.

Not only are whites kicking us; they are telling us how to react to being kicked.

The USA was founded in the name of democracy, equality and individual freedom, but is failing to deliver the fundamental promise of protecting rights for all.

To the beloved Republic under whose equal laws I am made a peer of any man, although denied political equality by my native land. [Scotland]

The state, whenever it is deemed convenient, will abrogate its responsibility to protect the constitutional rights ... [in the face of] variables such as race or political considerations.

I take it that any statute which is not equal to all, and which deprives any citizen of civil rights, which are secured to other citizens, is an unjust encroachment upon his liberty; and it is in fact a badge of servitude which by the Constitution is prohibited

Many people thought, like I did, that it was disgusting that somehow or another a profession could deem a person other than a human being.

The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law

Discrimination is not a national defense strategy!

When you're a black man in a hoodie, all of a sudden you're a criminal. That's something we shouldn't have to deal with, but we do. It's a double standard. We can't cover our head when it's cold and raining because God forbid someone sees us and puts our life in danger.

As a minority, no sooner do you learn to polish and cherish one chip on your shoulder than it's taken off you and swapped for another. The jewellery of your struggles is forever on loan, like the Koh-i-Noor diamond in the crown jewels.

We have a lot of people that are oppressed. We have a lot of people that aren't treated equally, aren't given equal opportunities. Police brutality is a huge thing that needs to be addressed. There are a lot of issues that need to be talked about, need to be brought to life, and we need to fix those.

The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.

To be on the other side of the law-and-order machine in this country is awful. It is dehumanizing and degrading and deforming. It fills you with a helpless rage because, once there, you can only make things worse for yourself by speaking up.