Morgan Tsvangirai Quotes

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

We live in a very unequal society.

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

If there is a class war—and there is—it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones.

… in the old days there were one thousand castes and destinies in India. These days, there are just two castes: Men with Big Bellies and Men with Small Bellies. And only two destinies: eat – or get eaten up

For the Left, victimhood has long carried social currency.

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

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.

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how race and class interact that made the situation for the poor so horrible on the Gulf Coast. The rigid caste system that punishes poor blacks and other minorities also targets poor whites.

Remember that our Spanish conquerors, for their own benefit, deliberately created an oppressed underclass whose collective psyche became rooted in passivity and underachievement.

Now that we are in power, we must ask ourselves, ‘how can we develop a truly just system rather than do to the elite what they have done to us?’

The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them

Why did the world ever become so unequal?