Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slaver's scars, I am the Red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek— And finding only the same ole stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

There are millions out there who aren't getting an even break. They're being done down.

We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.

I struggle with racism every day

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

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

All oppression creates a state of war.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

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

Flagrant injustice, cruelty and oppression…if left unchecked will so multiply that the whole of the native border tribes will be provoked into a battle of dangerous exasperation.

Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy and consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.

They don’t hate the West because of any specific policy or action like Israel or Iraq. They just hate because they have been unsuccessful; they feel that they’ve been denied their rightful place in life.

Social injustice is such a familiar phenomenon ... that it is readily regarded as something natural, even by its victims.

Keeping people on the margins of cultural, social and political life constitutes in many nations one of the most glaring injustices of our time.