Lynette Fromme Quotes

The more that I learn about what's going on, it's really hard to ignore the oppression that people are actually going through.

We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.

We might have to broaden our scope of how we think about where women are vulnerable, because different things make different women vulnerable.

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

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.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

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

Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

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

For a long time in the United States, in practice if not in principle, only white, male, Protestants were born free and equal.

Not only are whites kicking us; they are telling us how to react to being kicked.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

We Blacks have a long history of serving as cannon fodder for interests that are not our own.

Brother! We have, as your friends, fought by your side, and have poured out our blood in your defense, but our arms are now broken. You have grown large. My people have become small, and there are none who take pity on them.

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

The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity.

I think women and children and older people are the three least-respected groups in our society.

Honesty, vulnerability, pain - these are things that always supersede the trends of the day.

With any sort of minority, issues of ostracization or misrepresentation are clearly rampant. It's just so deeply rooted in our culture, and there are so many levels that it trickles down from.

There are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions - not just black women but other women of color. Not just people of color, but people with disabilities. Immigrants. LGBTQ people. Indigenous people.

There are people getting screwed in our country every single second, minute, hour of the day. And if by our work, we can decrease that number, we'll make a difference; we'll be doing our jobs.