McGeorge Bundy Quotes

Society is better off without certain people.

You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.

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

We must bear a good deal of responsibility for it. The way he was killed make it particularly abhorrent…. I should not have given my consent to it.

I know what it's like to think the system has left you behind.

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

Your poverty is my shame.

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

Victimhood, in the intersectional way of seeing the world, is akin to sainthood; power and privilege are profane.

We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others.

Awkwardness comes from the realization that, when you look around the world, it's difficult to identify anyone who isn't either the victim or the beneficiary of injustice.

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.

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

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

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

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

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

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'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 felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset.

I usually play disenfranchised youth.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.