Mitski Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

I would be remiss if I didn't say that it has been troubling for me to work within an institution that does not seem to recognize that I am a statistic.

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

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

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

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

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.

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.

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

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

I want nothing to do with privilege.

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

As you would expect when individualism is based only on opportunity, no one asks what happens to those who have neither the financial nor the political clout to exercise their tiny portion of that opportunity.

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

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

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