Bassem Youssef Quotes

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

Social injustice is such a familiar phenomenon ... that it is readily regarded as something natural, even by its victims.

The weak are always at war with the stronger; that is the source of eternal hatreds.

Awkwardness comes from the realization that, when you look around the world, it's difficult to identify anyone who isn't either the victim or the beneficiary of injustice.

No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.

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

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.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

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

It's easier to blame the person with less power.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

In his over-anxiety not to offend the powerful who have done wrong, President Wilson scrupulously refrains from saying one word on behalf of the weak who have suffered wrong.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness.

If you have maximum liberty then the strong can destroy the weak, and if you have absolute equality, you cannot have absolute liberty …. Total liberty can be dreadful, total equality can be equally frightful.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

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.

Popery and Slavery, like two sisters, go hand in hand, sometimes one goes first. Sometimes the other, in a door, but the other is always following close at hand.

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.

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

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