Roger Daltrey Quotes

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

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.

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

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

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

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

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.

A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.

I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

As you would expect when individualism is based only on opportunity, no one asks what happens to those who have neither the financial nor the political clout to exercise their tiny portion of that opportunity.

They don’t hate the West because of any specific policy or action like Israel or Iraq. They just hate because they have been unsuccessful; they feel that they’ve been denied their rightful place in life.

Power is dangerous for those who do not have it.

Social injustice is such a familiar phenomenon ... that it is readily regarded as something natural, even by its victims.

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.

Silence the voices of some in order to hear the voices of others. Sometimes there is no other way.

The supreme issue, involving all others, is the encroachment of the powerful few on the rights of the many. It is against the system built up by privilege that we must make unceasing warfare.