Jeffrey R. Immelt Quotes

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

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.

Society is better off without certain people.

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

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

An issue between a people and a class

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

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

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

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

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.

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

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.

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.

The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.

I usually play disenfranchised youth.

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

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.

I want nothing to do with privilege.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.