Paul Martin Quotes

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

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

Just because you are poor and have no voice does not mean that you don’t deserve police protection.

My perspective is never gonna change on that... We've got to do a much better job to take care of poor people, because you cannot put all the poor people in bad neighborhoods, send them to bad schools, and say, 'Good luck in life.' That's just not right.

People have almost been lulled into complacency because there are no signs over the water fountains. But the signs have been in the policies. There's still housing discrimination and wage discrimination.

There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country... I stand with those opposing such bigotry.

I just have this thing about injustice. Everybody hates the big injustices - I know. But I hate even the little injustices, even the way a salesclerk treats somebody who is shabbily dressed and happens to go into a nice store.

There are people getting screwed in our country every single second, minute, hour of the day. And if by our work, we can decrease that number, we'll make a difference; we'll be doing our jobs.

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

Well you know, all law is about injustice.