Lactantius Quotes

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

Woe to them, that take away the right of the poor.

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.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

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

Excessive economic and social disparity between individuals and peoples of the one human race is a source of scandal and militates against social justice, equity, human dignity, as well as social and international peace.

Poverty is rooted in injustice.

There are people getting screwed in our country every single second, minute, hour of the day. And if by our work, we can decrease that number, we'll make a difference; we'll be doing our jobs.

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

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.

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

Poverty is unnecessary.

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

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.

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

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

Inequality is on the rise.

The poor have neither the income nor political power to hold anyone accountable for meeting their needs- they are political and economic orphans.

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.

Why should there be such abject poverty?

If there is to be justice in the world, American must create it.

If you are on the wrong side of society you can’t win.