Ruben Blades Quotes

I hate seeing people getting a raw deal and artists not being in control of what they are doing. It happens all the time.

... the keynote of government is injustice.

It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore.

Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself.

It is not possible that one man can convert another into a piece of property, thus at once annihilating all his personal rights, without the most flagrant injustice and usurpation.

Do not deprive someone of his livelihood. This is a sinful tendency.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

In Mexico, the people who are put in jail are all the wrong people. The good people are in jail.

Woe to those who make unjust laws.

Corruption is a punitive tax on those who can least afford it.

There's no question but that the justice system sucks.

I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion

An innocent man is being degraded; an innocent man is being dishonored. Long live France. Long live the army.

I'm being treated like a criminal by the Polish government. It's just insane. I haven't done anything. What are they accusing me of?

I am accused of using hard language. I admit the charge. I have not been able to find a soft word to describe villainy or to identify the perpetrator of it. The man who makes a chattel of his brother - what is he? The man who keeps back the hire of his laborers by fraud - what is he?

It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.

The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.

We have to bring out the truth about how dark and dangerous and evil the taxi side is.

Children shouldn't have to suffer for any reason.

I do feel infuriated by the things I perceive to be unfair.

I'm just used to working harder than everybody and other people taking the credit.

I have no respect for the prosecutors, the judges. And I say that not with malice in my heart. I say it because they took 30 years from me.

People who exploit their power and abuse others need to be revealed.