Morris Dees Quotes

You kick a dog long enough, that dog is going to bite you or die.

Children shouldn't have to suffer for any reason.

I would say that it's wrong to milk someone's misery.

... the keynote of government is injustice.

Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.

Many people suffer at the hands of others. The world can be unfair, at times mercilessly so. Millions of people in the world are genuine victims, right now. All of us will be at some point, whether it's for small matters or large, for a long duration or short. But we aren't all victims, not all the time anyway, not for everything.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured, but we can reduce the number of tortured children.

Ignorant power comes in the end to the same thing as wicked power; it makes misery.

The rights of human nature are deeply wounded by this infamous practice.

… these English masters who, after placing me in a position which forced me to get down on my knees and elbows to eat, are now depriving me of food and light and giving me chains and a Bible. I am not complaining of the penalties which my masters inflict on me -- it is my job to suffer -- but I insist that I have the right to inform the world of the treatment to which I am subjected

Only the tortured can understand those who have been tortured.

Every time I see corruption, it pains me.

When people repeatedly hit me, I would feel a sense of unfairness.

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it's such a common, constant thing in people's lives - a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it's just accepted.

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me? What have they done to me?

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.