Gretchen Whitmer Quotes

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

Keeping people on the margins of cultural, social and political life constitutes in many nations one of the most glaring injustices of our time.

We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

We deserve to live in a world where there's no impunity, but beyond this question of impunity, there are all these structures that are actually doing a disservice to our people.

There's a lot of talk now about the PC police, and 'why is everything bad?' It isn't. What it is, is that marginalized and oppressed people who have never had a soapbox, who have never been given a microphone, suddenly have a microphone.

When you've been told in ways large and small your whole life that your voice doesn't matter and that you don't count, it's not an easy thing to get over.

Issues affecting tribal communities have routinely been minimized and ignored.

As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this, because I would inevitably be worse off. I would have spent more time struggling just to prove I was human than doing my work.

My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

I come from a place where we feel like we're not represented in the national media.

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

All oppression creates a state of war.

The world is an enormous injustice.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.