Reggie Jackson Quotes

This is a hard job to do …. We represent the underdog, and that makes the top dogs angry.

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

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.

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

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

There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who live in our most abject conditions. Maybe there are some things at work in deciding who gets to be society's winners and who gets to be society's losers that don't have to do with merit.

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

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.

Sex and race, because they are easy, visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups, and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends.

In the beginning, all men were alike and they lived in peace and they shared among them what they had. But now there are two kinds of men, the master and the slave. But there are more of us than there are of you, many more. And we are stronger than you, better than you. All that is good in mankind belongs to us.

When humans invented material inequality, they came up with a way of subjugating the low-ranking like nothing ever seen before in the primate world.

In every revolution, there are winners and losers. Every dystopia is a utopia for somebody else. It just depends where you are. Are you in the class that benefits, or are you in the class that's not?

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

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

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

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

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.

The world is an enormous injustice.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

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

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

Revolution applies a local anaesthetic to one class of society and operates on the other.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.