“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
“Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well, The wild tulip at the end of its tube, blows out its great red bell, Like a thin clear bubble of blood, for the children to pick and sell.” WellsChildrenEndsThreeClearBloodPicksRedSellsFingersBlowBubblesBellsRisenScarceTubesWheatEmeralds Book:The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861 Source: The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861
“I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.” KnowsMenBeliefCommonBloodHe ManBlowStreamsSwimmingCommon Man Book:The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People Source: The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People
“Very well, but remember this... I'll be looking at you when you're laid on the cross and the twelve blows are crashing down on your limbs. When the crowd is finally tired of your screams and wandered home, I will climb up through your blood and sit beside you. I will look deep into your eyes... and drop by drop I will trickle my disgust into them like burning acid until... finally... you perish.” WellsLooksHomeEyeRememberBloodCrossesTiredBlowCrowdsBurningClimbsScreamTwelveDisgustingLimbsAcidBeside YouCrashing DownGrenouille Author:Patrick Süskind