Edmund Ruffin quotes

Edmund Ruffin quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the expenses of living, very many, even on the ordinary laboring class, are remarkable for indolence, and work no more than compelled by necessity.”
-- Edmund Ruffin

#War Quotes #Class Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?”

Source : A. J. Muste's statement of 1941, as quoted in Howard Zinn "A People's History" (p. 416), 1980, and later quoted in Howard Zinn "The Twentieth Century: A People's History" (p. 159), May 9, 1984.
“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”
“Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.”
“Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.”
“Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.”
“I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands, and if he had ever made another class that he intended should do all the work and none of the eating, he would have made them without mouths and with all hands.”
“Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.”
“It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.”
“If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.”
“Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.”

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