Kishore Chandra Deo Quotes

Air power and military are meant to fight the enemy and not your own citizens... How do you differentiate a Maoist?... It will create a civil war-like situation.

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

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

Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

They don’t hate the West because of any specific policy or action like Israel or Iraq. They just hate because they have been unsuccessful; they feel that they’ve been denied their rightful place in life.

A man, and yet not a man. In flesh and blood alive; politically dead.” …. They are not slaves, but they are not, in a political sense, ‘persons’.

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

Statistically, a “normal” human being in today’s world is poor, lives in oppressive physical, social, and political conditions, and is ruled by unresponsive and corrupt government.

Keeping people on the margins of cultural, social and political life constitutes in many nations one of the most glaring injustices of our time.

We [Blacks] wear the mask that grins and lies It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes.

People have nothing to lose. Government has stripped them of their dignity and their respect.

I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slaver's scars, I am the Red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek— And finding only the same ole stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

We Blacks have a long history of serving as cannon fodder for interests that are not our own.

Despite the advances in technology and communications that link us more closely than ever before, there remains the reality of division at so many levels in our world. We see these divides between rich and poor, between women and men, between different religions or ethnic groups, between citizens and migrants. We know as well that these divides are at the core of so many of today's conflicts.

Tyranny, Stupidity, and lack of vision have brought about the situation now alluded to as the Indian problem.

India lives in her villages, we are told in every other sanctimonious public speech, That's bullshit. India doesn't live in her villages. India dies in her villages. India gets kicked around in her villages. India lives in her cities. India's villages just live only to serve her cities. Her villages are her citizen's vassals and for that reason must be controlled and kept alive, but only just.

[Referring to the Philippines:] Freedom and its blessings are a reality for a minority and an illusion for the many.

The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity.

So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.

In Puerto Rico, we continue to see the perpetuation of second-class citizenship in the United States.