C. L. R. James Quote

The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (ed. Penguin UK, 2001) - ISBN: 9780141937083