Sean Connery Quotes

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

I've been taught that human nature is such that the place of privilege most often and most naturally leads to a sense of entitlement. The notion that I deserve to be treated as special because I'm privileged. The truth is, privilege should never lead to entitlement.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

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

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

Those who are privileged have little regard for history.

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

I'm aware that not everybody gets that feeling of ease walking through the world that I have.

People have almost been lulled into complacency because there are no signs over the water fountains. But the signs have been in the policies. There's still housing discrimination and wage discrimination.

I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater.

Intersectionality is not easy. It's not as though the existing frameworks that we have - from our culture, our politics, or our law - automatically lead people to being conversant and literate in intersectionality.

Only when we recognise our privilege, we will be able to make a change for others.

What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

People don't want to have to justify their privileges; they don't want to have to justify having access to the power and resource that wealth brings. And by not talking about it, they are able to hold onto their power without being questioned, and I think that makes them feel more secure.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

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

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

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

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.

If any group wants to not be disenfranchised, then understanding that there's going to be a learning curve for people who have disenfranchised them is important.

The Achilles' heel of the left has been its dependence on menace for power. Think of all the things it can ask for in the name of fighting menaces like 'systemic racism' and 'structural inequality.'

I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.