Marcia L. Fudge Quotes

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

Minorities…are almost always in the right.

Social injustice is such a familiar phenomenon ... that it is readily regarded as something natural, even by its victims.

Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.

My only crime is breathing and existing.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.

I usually play disenfranchised youth.

Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

Very often as a little girl, then as a young woman, I have suffered my lot of discrimination. I was brought up with brothers; I grew up in a boys' world. You have to elbow your way in. When you come with that sentiment of having been in a minority for a long period of time, then you are much more attentive to minorities.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

It's easier to blame the person with less power.

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.