John Grisham Quotes

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful white male

If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected – those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! – and listens to their testimony.

The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.

We cannot rebuild the American Dream here at home by catering to the voices of the privileged and powerful.

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

I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really face the problems that people who are pushed to the point of striking know all about, but others know practically nothing about.

The cry of the Have-Nots has never been "give us our hearts," but always "get off our backs"; they ask not for love but for breathing space.

There are people out there that feel there are injustices being made and happening in the USA on a daily basis.

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

We're not children here. The law is-how should I put it? A convenience. Or a convenience for some people, and an inconvenience for other people.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

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.

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

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

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

Justice often means taking power from some who have it and giving it to some who do not.

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

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

Those who are privileged have little regard for history.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them