Mike Hanna Quotes

Knowing the horror that most women have of anything approaching irreverence, the Bible has been called out to play the part of a scarecrow on the rich fields of men’s monopolies…Men have had the management of all things human for six thousand years…Has the result been so eminently successful that we need dread a little change?

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

Often, those with the most to lose as a result of a poor policy move are the most vulnerable and most marginalized. Those folks need a voice, and I will endeavor to be that voice.

Well, there's things that never will be right I know, And things need changin' everywhere you go

America’s real majority is suffering a minority complex of neglect. They have become the real foes of Negro rights, foreign aid, etc, because … they feel forgotten, at the second table behind the tightly organized smaller groups at either end of the U. S. spectrum.

If you try to smooth out society with a hot iron, you're liable to drive out all talent.

People who bear the brunt of dominant economic and military power have always resented, even hated, the subordination they experience while admiring grudgingly the institutions that sustain the subordination.

If you are on the wrong side of society you can’t win.

Oppression is the essence of power.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws

The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them.

… all the baggage of a paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

Victimhood, in the intersectional way of seeing the world, is akin to sainthood; power and privilege are profane.

Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

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.

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

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

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.