Jaylen Brown Quotes

I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.

There are millions out there who aren't getting an even break. They're being done down.

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.

I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.

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

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

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.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

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

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

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 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.

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.

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

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.

It's interesting to take a look at people who deal with prejudice on a daily basis - it's been a real eye opener for me.

We repudiate the rights of a privileged class, and uphold the rights of a privileged race.

This is a hard job to do …. We represent the underdog, and that makes the top dogs angry.

... all good Americans, while verbally asking for nothing but equal rights, ... interpret the phrase so that equal rights become equivalent to special rights.

Most of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and have nots.