William Regal Quotes

It's not easy to shout against real elements. The elements are big, and the human voice is very small.

It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

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

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

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.

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

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

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there.

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

A heavy aristocracy and corruption are two bridles in the mouths of a people which will prevent them from making any effectual efforts against their masters.

If you have maximum liberty then the strong can destroy the weak, and if you have absolute equality, you cannot have absolute liberty …. Total liberty can be dreadful, total equality can be equally frightful.

I didn't believe one man should have so much services and another man should have none.

If you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.

You [a country] cannot be rich, successful and powerful and still be loved, particularly be those who have little success, wealth or power.

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

Brother! We have, as your friends, fought by your side, and have poured out our blood in your defense, but our arms are now broken. You have grown large. My people have become small, and there are none who take pity on them.

We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.