Nuseir Yassin Quotes

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

I mean, you know, we don't live in a perfect world.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. It’s very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.

… injustice breeds injustice

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

I look at the Supreme Court and know why Jesus wept.

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.

It's kind of almost not fair that certain people don't get the opportunities that others get just because of where they are born or where they were brought up.

I hate parameters. They immediately alienate a bunch of people.

I must be intellectually honest and say there is a great justice deficit among us. Not all Brazilians are treated equally.

Injustice drives me crazy!

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long way to go before we really reward people based on their own merit.

Unfairness is everywhere.

The world is not equal, unfortunately.

I cannot stand unfairness.