William Lloyd Garrison Quotes

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

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

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?'

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

One Law for the Lion and the Ox is oppression.

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

Justice is the sanction used to support established injustice.

I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half

The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

Let us consider a more concrete example of just and unjust laws. An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.

The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own time.

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.

The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.

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

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

Society is better off without certain people.

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.

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.

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

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

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.