Ralph Fiennes Quotes

If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.

It is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.

I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.

If too many people feel excluded from the system and cannot access its benefits, they will ultimately rebel against it.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

How miserable that man is that Governes a People where six parts of seven at least are Poor, Endebted Discontented and Armed.

I came to the cities in a time of disorder When hunger ruled. I came among men in a time of uprising And I revolted with them.

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

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Social change can be painful for all involved—oppressor and oppressed.

In the beginning, all men were alike and they lived in peace and they shared among them what they had. But now there are two kinds of men, the master and the slave. But there are more of us than there are of you, many more. And we are stronger than you, better than you. All that is good in mankind belongs to us.

Revolution by the have-nots has a way of inducing a moral revelation among the haves.

People who are underprivileged have more to grieve and have more to overcome.

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.

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

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'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.