Jeff Buckley Quotes

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

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

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

Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.

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

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.

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.

Nothing is good in this society. This patriarchal society is bad.

Mr. Trump had campaigned on attacking the weakest and most vulnerable in our society.

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 system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others.

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.

What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system.

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

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

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.

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.

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?'

I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.

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

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.