Winnie Byanyima Quotes

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

If you're perpetuating discrimination, you're perpetuating inequality.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

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.

At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism.

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.

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

… injustice breeds injustice

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

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 think it is fundamental to understand that the ethics of politics indicate that you should concentrate your efforts on those marginalized people who live in poverty with few opportunities to develop individually.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

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.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

The world is an enormous injustice.

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

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

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.