Dan George Quotes

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.

We have a full right, by our own best wisdom, and then even by compulsion to dictate terms and conditions to them [Native Americans] .... The Indian must be made to feel he is in the grasp of a superior.

We have a tendency in life to be afraid of our oppressors.

With what moral authority can they [the U. S.] speak of human rights — the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated?

Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion.

Trans justice calls on us to combat the blend of prejudices that demean the lives and diminish the autonomy of another person.

When a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head up and say, "I am not lesser!" Some people can do it and some cannot; and some of those people who cannot will be destroyed.

As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this, because I would inevitably be worse off. I would have spent more time struggling just to prove I was human than doing my work.

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.

If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants.

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.

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

It had never crossed my mind that a man could think he had the right to stop me from being who I was.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

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

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.