Carol Moseley Braun Quotes

When you are about to badger the weak, Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.

Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.

Bullying is the result of an unequal power dynamic - the strong attacking the weak.

A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.

It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life -literally- and it seemed to be a big part of the outside world too. I was sick of it, sick of guys like these, stupid and bullying.

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well.

Conceptually, I always took issue with bullies and those who took advantage of others, whether it was a teacher's cruelty to a student, or a student who picked fights with others.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

I want nothing to do with privilege.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

The fact that we are smaller and weaker does not mean that we have less sovereignty than you.

Those who have no sense of right, reason or religion, have a natural propensity to make use of their strength to the destruction of such as are weaker than they.

I'm a little girl; no one wants to beat up on me.

In this world, people are violent toward people that they feel are conceptualized as smaller than them. It's an impulse that we have.

Some of the metaphors you find in 'Wicked' - how those in power can exploit fear in others to maintain their power - I think, as Jews, we've seen that historically on more than one occasion.

Small? Nah, I never want to be small. Big people usually push small people around. Why would I want to be small?

When I played and got abused by another player, called a 'black so and so,' I always said 'that's out of order' but I tried to ignore it. I'd be thinking: 'You're not going to bring me down to that level.' But there were occasions when something was said and the next tackle went in a lot firmer.

No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.

Americans don't like powerful figures who punch down, that is, who pick on someone less powerful and less able to speak for themselves than they are.