Fisher Ames Quotes

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

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

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

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

The history of most countries has been that of majorities—mounted majorities, clad in iron, armed with death, treading down the tenfold more numerous minorities.

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

Resentment — that feeling when the modern promise of equality collides with massive disparities of power, education, status and property ownership.

I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled.

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.

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.

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

Society is better off without certain people.

What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system.

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 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.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

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?'

Injustice can never be stood for.

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

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

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

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

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.