William Hazlitt Quotes

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

Whenever there are enclosing walls, there are abuses behind them.

Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. The pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations

The amount of suffering I've seen is beyond belief. The amount of inequality is beyond belief.

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

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.

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.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

I had a very comfortable life, but there were people who spent their life in prison, whose families were destroyed.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Every hour I spent on manual work, every hour I was humiliated in England or degraded has helped me because that's the same way other people feel in the townships here. People are still walking long distances and are working long hours.

There ought to be a law against necessity.

They taught me different was wrong.

Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Poverty is often off the beaten track. It always has been.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated, it has blighted a hundred.