Richard Wright Quotes

The world is an enormous injustice.

Society is better off without certain people.

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

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

Justice is the sanction used to support established injustice.

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.

I feel that discrimination and hierarchy is something that people have to face constantly.

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.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected – those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! – and listens to their testimony.

We do not yet have justice, equal and practical, for the poor, for the members of minority groups, for the criminally accused, for the displaced persons of the technological revolution, for alienated youth, for the urban masses, for the unrepresented consumer – for all … who do not partake of the abundance of American life.

White folks don't want peace; they want quiet. The price you pay for peace is justice.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.