Bryan Stevenson Quotes

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 is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

Woe to them, that take away the right of the poor.

Inequality is a poison that is destroying livelihoods, stripping families of dignity, and splitting communities.

I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.

Racism in our countries is a fact in that the indian is not allowed to be a politician or aspire to being head of state. It has reached the point that 99% of the indigenous women have not gone to school. The indigenous are condemned to live in a situation designed to exterminate them. They receive a pittance of a salary, they neither speak nor write the language, politics dictates their situation. Is this slavery? I don't know what it's called. It is not the same as before because we are in modern times.

The greatest discrimination in the world now is against poor people.

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call it camping.

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

It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor. Simply said, race makes class hurt more.

A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?

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

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.

Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people.

Inequality is on the rise.

With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

I challenge British Muslims to accept that as strongly as they feel about Iraq or counter-terrorism measures, poverty and inequality have the biggest impact on the lives of the majority of British Muslims and do the most to prevent potential being fulfilled.

Bottom 10 Percent progressives are not enthusiastic about concentrations of wealth. But that's not what keeps them up at night. Their focus is on deprivation and lack of opportunity. They're motivated by empathy for people who are suffering, rather than outrage over unjustified wealth.

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

Minorities do not believe this country will give them a fair shake.

Poverty is rooted in injustice.

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

Of all the ways people save time, I think racism is the worst.