Abhay Deol Quotes

I know what it's like to think the system has left you behind.

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

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

The trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are discriminated against think of themselves as second-class.

After years of globalisation, disaffected populations have lost confidence that the system is fair.

I remember hearing in first grade, 'Oh, why does she get to skip school?' It wasn't like I suddenly started feeling different. I always knew that I was. I never felt I missed out.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

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

Everybody else has been seen, been proven.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

For people who have been slaves for 150 years doing all the work to be called lazy and shiftless by the man who was sitting on the porch—that is a phenomenon in itself.

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

If you are on the wrong side of society you can’t win.

Brother! We have, as your friends, fought by your side, and have poured out our blood in your defense, but our arms are now broken. You have grown large. My people have become small, and there are none who take pity on them.

Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one

Resentment — that feeling when the modern promise of equality collides with massive disparities of power, education, status and property ownership.

If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's how racism works.

The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.