Ken Liu Quotes

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

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.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

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

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

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.

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?'

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

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

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

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.

Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

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

I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half

Resentment — that feeling when the modern promise of equality collides with massive disparities of power, education, status and property ownership.

The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.

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

It's kind of almost not fair that certain people don't get the opportunities that others get just because of where they are born or where they were brought up.

Awkwardness comes from the realization that, when you look around the world, it's difficult to identify anyone who isn't either the victim or the beneficiary of injustice.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

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

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