Powerless Special Edition Quotes

Slaves, women, blacks, Hispanics, gays—you’d think the aging white Anglo-Saxon Protestant men that run this country would have figured it out by now. Same pattern, same template, same stupidity applied to some other minority. They say that how you treat those most vulnerable and powerless in society either validates or condemns your morals. It should be clear by now that this country is morally bankrupt.

Stealing has carved a special place for itself in South Africa. It joined lying as co-mediator between the powerful and the powerless. Stealing and lying become a principle of social and political interaction when lying is used ... to justify stealing as a form of social and political activism. This