Kool Moe Dee Quotes

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Trump is not the problem. He is the symptom of the problem where Americans no longer believe that the system works for them.

The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not even the 'best' citizens - as the system of corruption which has grown up about us, and which rewards an honest man with a mere living and a crook with all the magnificence of our magnificent modern life.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.

... an apathetic indifferent meat in a sandwich that has an ever thinning slice of maniacal Plutocratic Gluttony on top and an ever thickening slice of rotten vermin rottening at the bottom.

Too many things that happen in this country give the impression that our system is blind in the right eye.

Poverty is an artificial imposition on a human being.

The fact that policies often fail for no good reason is annoying but less depressing than the view that it is a big conspiracy against the poor… Name your favorite enemy… capitalism, corruption … Our view is easier. You think hard about the problems and you can solve them.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

White male privilege remains alive in America, but the phrase would seem odd, if not infuriating, to a sixty-year-old man working as a Walmart greeter in southern Ohio.

Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.

Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal.

It's an awful thing to be aware of your own corruption. I think a lot of people are bound by the particular economic system we work in to serve companies and masters who aren't really telling people what they're doing.

We cannot pretend we do not have problems; we cannot pretend things are not wrong in our country. A lot of things are wrong.

The more that I learn about what's going on, it's really hard to ignore the oppression that people are actually going through.

I think there's a feeling of - a grassroots feeling of being betrayed by the elites in some way: that the system is working for itself and not for the people at the bottom.

Believe me, folks, I've been saying it for a long time. The system, the whole system is rigged.

People - pardon me, journalists and politicians - have often accused me of believing that I'm above the law. And yet, who isn't? Everywhere you prod it, even with the shortest stick, the established system isn't simply corrupt, it's unequivocally putrescent. The law is created by demonstrable criminals, enforced by demonstrable, interpreted by demonstrable criminals, all for demonstrably criminal purposes. Of course I'm above the law. And so are you.

The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.

Policing was developed, created, and implemented for the elite, and - in the case of the United States - the elites were and almost entirely remain white, upper middle class, cisgender straight men.