Campbell Brown Quotes

This is a hard job to do …. We represent the underdog, and that makes the top dogs angry.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stand up and protest.

The oppressed have no alternative—for they have no power—but to fight.

An aggressor will always push forward and do more until he meets resistance. We've seen that time and time again over history.

I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.

No one can finish my party. Just because they have money power, they think they can finish us off.

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!

Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.

The real leaders cannot appear in the peaceful time; nor can the serious opposition emerge from within the peaceful atmosphere. Without an open confrontation, there is no opposition!

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

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

Social change can be painful for all involved—oppressor and oppressed.

A movement that doesn't produce a backlash isn't much of a movement at all.

We have tried everything to prevent this, but they have got too powerful, and there is nothing for us but for our friends to go into their meetings and disturb the harmony of them, and create division.

I'm all for philosophical debates about race, but if you look at history, you see that the status quo has power when it's unchallenged. So these conversations about inequality are crucial.

Different identity groups hold specific levels of power over others when their battles play out in the media. To wit: Black beats white. Gay beats white. Black beats gay.

The character of Robin Hood stands for the deep anger of the dispossessed against the ruling classes.

You can talk all you want but I'm definitely going to bark back.

I'm challenging the powers that be.

Injustice can never be stood for.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.