Roger Ross Williams Quotes

I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance. Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything. All the time. I feel like I'm not taken seriously.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that's been discriminated against, knows what it's like.

People across metro Detroit face discrimination every day in housing, employment, insurance - the list goes on. It might not always be explicit and in your face, but my residents know when they're being mistreated.

If you're perpetuating discrimination, you're perpetuating inequality.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

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

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

All oppression creates a state of war.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Why do you all push us around?

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

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

I am disgusted and worn out with the system that seems to prevail.

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

It's easier to blame the person with less power.

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

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

Not only are whites kicking us; they are telling us how to react to being kicked.

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

If we're going to be treated like a bunch of bums on this side of the aisle, then say so.

Oppression makes a wise man mad.