Caster Semenya Quotes

I remember hearing in first grade, 'Oh, why does she get to skip school?' It wasn't like I suddenly started feeling different. I always knew that I was. I never felt I missed out.

Every invalid is a prisoner.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

What makes equality such a difficult business is that we only want it with our superiors.

Woe to them, that take away the right of the poor.

If you are on the wrong side of society you can’t win.

The trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are discriminated against think of themselves as second-class.

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

I certainly feel injustice. I'm no foreigner to that, whether it's real or perceived.

All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

I've certainly experienced being treated not as an equal.

I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

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

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

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 see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

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

I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.

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.

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

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

Everyone knows that life isn't fair. Saying it's not fair suggests that you think life is supposed to be fair, which makes you look immature and naive.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.