Alan Ball Quotes

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.

If he presents himself to vote, he runs a risk to his life. Oppressed, he can complain, but if he finds only whites among his judges… His son is excluded from the school where the descendants of Europeans come to be instructed. In theaters he cannot buy for the price of gold the right to be placed at the side of one who was his master; in hospitals he lies apart. The black is permitted to beseech the same God as whites, but not to pray to him at the same alter.

Bias and prejudice make me angry...more than anything.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.

Injustice can never be stood for.

I usually play disenfranchised youth.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for.

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.

Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues, even in a modified form, then the system must still be attacked until that injustice is eradicated.