O. T. Fagbenle Quotes

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

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

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

There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new normal.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

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

I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged.

Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people.

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

Our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality.

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.

Many of the ideas that accompany privilege talk, if implemented, would wreak havoc on human wellbeing. If people truly acknowledged their privilege, they would show a greater concern for the forces behind it, which permit them to lead long, healthy, educated, leisure-filled lives, all the while incessantly complaining about the unadulterated evils of modern civilization.

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

Oppression doesn't disappear just because you decided not to teach us that chapter.

I don't think that the trickle-down theory of diversity ever really works.

So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

Opportunity seems to be color-coded here in America

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