Fatou Bensouda Quotes

The supreme issue, involving all others, is the encroachment of the powerful few on the rights of the many. It is against the system built up by privilege that we must make unceasing warfare.

Injustice which lasts for three long centuries and which exists among millions of people over thousands of square miles of territory, is injustice no longer; it is an accomplished fact of life. Men adjust themselves to their land; they create their own laws of being; their notions of right and wrong.

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

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.

Social injustice is such a familiar phenomenon ... that it is readily regarded as something natural, even by its victims.

Oppression is but another name for irresponsible power, if history is to be trusted.

There is no more justice in France. There is only the revolver.

Society is better off without certain people.

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

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?'

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

The world is an enormous injustice.

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

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

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

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

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.

... this is a grievance society and that if you want to get into its leading edge you pretty well have to be a victim.

Statistically, a “normal” human being in today’s world is poor, lives in oppressive physical, social, and political conditions, and is ruled by unresponsive and corrupt government.