Ross Douthat Quotes

To ignore race and sex is racist and sexist.

Awards shows are being pushed to shed their genteel limousine liberalism and embrace the race-gender-sexual identity agenda in full.

Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women's movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive but there is still hard work to be done to include LGBT women and communities of color.

We must make sure #MeToo breaks the race, class, gender, and faith lines that make it so hard for marginalized people to be heard.

The only part of my mother's experience that still gets to me is the way she and people like her were looked down upon for asking America to be America, for asking for full and equal participation in our democracy.

All the excuses that people in power used to make for not telling diverse stories or including diverse people, they've proven to be false.

I am not a Somali representative. I am not a Muslim representative. I am not a millennial representative. I am not a woman representative. I am a representative who happens to have all of these marginalized identities and can understand the intersectionality of all of them in a very unique way.

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

Only when the oppressed are heard can we have an honest solutions based dialogue.

If more stories are told about marginalized communities, subcultures, and minorities, the less marginalized they will be.

I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

The personal is political, but only to a point.

If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?

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

We are witnessing a very slow and painful cultural shift. Some male gamers with a deep sense of entitlement are terrified of change. They believe games should continue to cater exclusively to young heterosexual men with ever more extreme virtual power fantasies.

While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

Justice often means taking power from some who have it and giving it to some who do not.

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

America must be a nation in which its multiracial people are partners in power.

Even in 'Hollyoaks,' we were known as 'the black family' as opposed to just 'the new family.' But that's where we are in the world, I guess. It's getting better; everything's heading in the right direction, whether it be race, sex, gender.

I am Indian, and my home is Kampala. My world is already diverse. But films are financed by those who want to see themselves on screen, and it is a white male world. Still, it does feel like America is waking up. Let's hope it's the start of an avalanche.