Benigno Aquino III Quotes

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

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.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

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

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

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

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.

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

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

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

Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

Resentment — that feeling when the modern promise of equality collides with massive disparities of power, education, status and property ownership.

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.

The Achilles' heel of the left has been its dependence on menace for power. Think of all the things it can ask for in the name of fighting menaces like 'systemic racism' and 'structural inequality.'

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.

Victimhood, in the intersectional way of seeing the world, is akin to sainthood; power and privilege are profane.

I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater.

I both love inequality and am terrified of it.

We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others.

Oppression doesn't disappear just because you decided not to teach us that chapter.