Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

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

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

The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.

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.

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

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

Social inequality … divides society into two classes -- the wage-slaves and the grabbers of capital

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

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.

The supreme issue, involving all others, is the encroachment of the powerful few on the rights of the many. It is against the system built up by privilege that we must make unceasing warfare.

An issue between a people and a class

I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half

We are still a nation deeply divided by race and class.

In Brazil, a poor man goes to jail when he steals. When a rich man steals, he becomes a minister.

You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.

I just have this thing about injustice. Everybody hates the big injustices - I know. But I hate even the little injustices, even the way a salesclerk treats somebody who is shabbily dressed and happens to go into a nice store.

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.

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

In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

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

Society is better off without certain people.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.