"where justiceid is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails,
and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized
conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, niether persons nor property will
be safe"

It's from a speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C. (April 1886) by this man (whose bioigraphy should help you understand the quote) --

Frederick Douglass - Wikiquote (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass