“Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich, the pariah not the brahmin, the black not the white, the underdog not the top dog, the dissenter not the conformist. . . The law barks at all but bites only the poor, the powerless, the illiterate, the ignorant.” LawBlackWhitePoorDealsRichBloodDogShotsPoliceIncludingBlowIgnorantBitesPenaltiesPowerlessMajestyDeath PenaltyBarkUnderdogIlliterateLegal SystemConformistPariahsBrahmins Author:V. R. Krishna Iyer
“Of all my prosecutorsnot one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my case to the jury, as was clearly your duty, then I should have had just cause of protest, for not one of those men was my peer; but, native or foreign born, white or black, rich or poor, educated or ignorant, sober or drunk, each and every man of them was my political superior; hence, in no sense, my peer.” MenShouldLawPoliticalCausesBlackBornWhitePoorCasesRichDutyHonorShould HaveEvery ManIgnorantSuperiorsEducatedDrunkNativeProtestPeersSoberJurySuffrageRich Or PoorYour HonorWoman Suffrage Author:Susan B. Anthony
“Master Michelangelo once said that 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.' This is what we must do when we see an ignorant man: To set him free from the black marble we call ignorance!” MenSaidBlackSawsIgnoranceMastersAngelIgnorantMarble Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.” MenPoliticalBlackWhiteRightsIgnorantDenialIrrationalUnjustWhite ManViciousSuffrageSecuredConcededPolitical Rights Author:Horace Greeley