Royce C. Lamberth Quotes

Power is dangerous for those who do not have it.

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely

The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

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

Disenfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

Will the American People Never Cease to Oppress and Torture the Helpless poor?

The loggers are more powerful than we are …. There is bribery everywhere.

The oppression of a majority by a minority, and the demoralization inevitably resulting from it, is a phenomenon that has always occupied me and has done so most particularly of late …. The reason for the astonishing fact that a majority of working people submit to a handful of idlers who control their labour and their very lives is always and everywhere the same — whether the oppressors and oppressed are of one race or whether, as in India and elsewhere, the oppressors are of a different nation.

Oppression is but another name for irresponsible power, if history is to be trusted.

I never bought a man who wasn’t for sale.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

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

An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

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.

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.

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.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.

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

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature, and that power whether vested in many or few is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'