Indira Gandhi Quotes

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.

I can understand better than most the contradiction between the idealistic civilisation and religious morals of Europe and what they did with the slaves, because the root of the evil is only two generations away from me. Maybe this has fed my need to fight against the abuses of modern civilisation.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.

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.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

I am always loath to use the world 'evil,' but if 'evil' is the reverse of 'live,' Guy de Rothschild is thoroughly evil. He stands for the opposite of life.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

There is no document of civilization that is not simultaneously a document of barbarism.

The English have found to their detriment how impolitic it is to oppress their subjects.

To detail the real evils of aristocracy, they must be seen in Europe.

It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.... My prison-house is but an intensified replica of the world beyond, the larger prison locked with the levers of Greed, guarded by the spawn of Hunger.

everyone who was able built a castle; so that the poor people were worn out with the toil of these buildings, and the whole kingdom was covered with castles.

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

All down history, nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding corn for the remaining one-tenth, been paid with the husks, and bidden to thank God they had the husks.