Larry Wilmore Quotes

Men continue to misinterpret the second-rate status of women as implying a privileged status for themselves; heterosexuals think the same way about homosexuals; gentiles about Jews; whites about blacks; haves about have-nots.

Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of the half of society over which the other half has power—from the exercises of the right of the strongest.

Women to govern men, slaves freemen, are much in the same degree; all being total violations and perversions of the laws of nature and nations.

We'll always be re-examining how we relate to each other in terms of race and gender, in terms of power and access.

In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

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

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

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.

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

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

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

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

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

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

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

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

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.