Justin Simien Quotes

We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.

To be white and male is not to be sexist and racist.

The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

For more than six thousand years the history of woman has been one of hopeless sadness. She moved only to the clank of chains, and her vain desire for better and higher things could not find expression, for woman was by force of circumstances inarticulate. Detraction of one sex and exaltation of the other became a habit of mind expressed in law, in religion, in literature as well as in the ordinary activities of everyday life.

Among the progress of the human mind that is most important for human happiness, we must count the entire destruction of the prejudices that have established inequality between the sexes, fatal even to the sex it favors….This inequality has no other source but the abuse of power, and men have tried in vain to excuse it by sophisms.

Whether I realize it or not, I have benefitted from my skin color and my gender - and those of a different gender or sexuality or skin color have suffered because of it.

It must be so nice to be a white male.

I want to live in a world that is less white supremacist, straight supremacist, male supremacist.

Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women's movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive but there is still hard work to be done to include LGBT women and communities of color.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.

The world is still sexist.

I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around... I was never that feminist girl demanding equality, but maybe that's because I've never really faced inequality.