Deborah Eisenberg Quotes

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

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

It is always the right of the mighty which prevails over the weak, and that is very primitive.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

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

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

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.

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

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

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

Woe to them, that take away the right of the poor.

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.

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

The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own time.

Victimhood, in the intersectional way of seeing the world, is akin to sainthood; power and privilege are profane.

We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others.

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.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

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.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.

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

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.