Winnie Mandela Quotes

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

Poverty is unnecessary.

We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided society, divided by wealth, by opportunity, by outcome, by assets and so forth.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.

I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, and works against us, so you cant convict those who can benefit from the system, because its not neccesarily their fault.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

The supreme issue, involving all others, is the encroachment of the powerful few on the rights of the many. It is against the system built up by privilege that we must make unceasing warfare.

Poverty is an artificial imposition on a human being.

In the transition epoch, surely crimes will come. Did the seed of tyranny ever bear good fruit? And can you expect Liberty to undo in a moment what Oppression has been doing for ages?

How can you stand for the national anthem of a nation that preaches and propagates, 'freedom and justice for all,' that is so unjust to so many of the people living there?

Ben Carson was appointed to be the HUD secretary. He knows nothing about the mission of HUD. He doesn't care about people in public housing. He believes that if you are poor, it is your own fault. And he doesn't know the difference between an immigrant and a slave.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

We have a lot of societal problems that we have to fix in the 1990s.

Nearly everyone I know seems to have a well-developed theory as to why this country is past redemption, or almost, and every theory seems almost right.

The ANC has failed to address the problems of the black majority quickly enough.

There are a lot of things wrong with the country, and that doesn't mean America sucks. It means we should improve it.

Income inequality and government corruption are both unfortunate realities in the United States.

People have almost been lulled into complacency because there are no signs over the water fountains. But the signs have been in the policies. There's still housing discrimination and wage discrimination.

I think 'Mudbound' reveals the interconnectiveness of our stories. You can't separate out threads of history and race as economic construct. 'Mudbound' makes it very plain. Race is about commerce; it's not an actual thing. It's a fiction that was created to basically divide resources unequally.

Life ain't fair, period.