Conrad Black Quotes

Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

All God’s dangers ain’t White men.

Rich people are powerful in wealth but few in votes.

Our nation's long neglect of minorities whose skin is dark is perhaps only a little worse than our neglect of another minority whose hair is white.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of the half of society over which the other half has power—from the exercises of the right of the strongest.

Poor men's words have little weight.

The elite interests must not crowd out the interests of the citizens.

History teaches us that there have been but few infringements of personal liberty by the state which have not been justified, as they are here, in the name of righteousness and the public good, and few which have not been directed, as they are now, at politically helpless minorities.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.

… the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Let us consider a more concrete example of just and unjust laws. An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.

I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.

It's always going to be a fight for anyone who isn't an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn't have a fight.

Until we address the pervasive structural and interpersonal threats facing communities of color, we will remain unequipped to make equity a reality.