William A. Dembski Quotes

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

… cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion

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

No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

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

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

The Negro's and Negro Women are inhumanly treated, are two-thirds naked, and are very disgusting to the Eye and another Sense, Tho I begin to be more habituated to the Sight, yet I cannot be to the great Cruelty made Use of to the poor ignorant Wretches.

Woe to those who make unjust laws.

Those who have by an unrighteous power made merchandise of the earth, giving all to some, & none to others, declare themselves tyranicall & usurping.

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

People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.

The problem in the world is the oppression of man by man; it this which threatens existence.

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.

You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.

We've seen the worst that human beings are capable of. We've seen what happens when leaders abandon common decency in favor of rage and hate. Through the lens of history, the Holocaust happened yesterday, the civil rights movement was this morning, so we are not as out of the woods as we might have thought.

I haven't experienced a lot of prejudice in my life, but I'm not naive to what goes on in the world.

There's something not right with a person's soul when they judge another human being to be less adequate because of their gender or skin color.

We have tolerance, respect, and equality in our written laws but not in the hearts of some of our people.