Rupi Kaur Quotes

Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.

The world is an enormous injustice.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few

This is a hard job to do …. We represent the underdog, and that makes the top dogs angry.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

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

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Whenever there are some who have more opportunities than others, this feeds corruption.

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

What are your masses [of humanity] but mud to be ground underfoot, fuel to be burned for those who deserve it?

Well, there's things that never will be right I know, And things need changin' everywhere you go

Much law, but little justice.

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose; while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose, especially their lives.

All men are created equal. Some, it appears, are created a little more equal than others.

In the beginning, all men were alike and they lived in peace and they shared among them what they had. But now there are two kinds of men, the master and the slave. But there are more of us than there are of you, many more. And we are stronger than you, better than you. All that is good in mankind belongs to us.

… injustice breeds injustice

In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together.

We've come a long way, but there is still a lot of discrimination.

I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.

The world is not equal, unfortunately.

The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.

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.

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