Hideki Tojo Quotes

The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.

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

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

You're going to relegate my history to a month.

If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not - you are not smiling about it.

Why didn't we recognize how much it bothered them spiritually and politically?

We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about.

Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.

Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.

The supreme issue, involving all others, is the encroachment of the powerful few on the rights of the many. It is against the system built up by privilege that we must make unceasing warfare.

Canadians would not tolerate it if they really knew there was a whole generation of aboriginal Canadians who have a chance at a better education and are being denied it.

I hate the anglicanisation of culture, the idea that culture is genteel. It's not genteel.

I know that when we deprive communities of their voice, it can be dangerous.

It's not new to attempt to vilify the minority that speaks about their oppression. That's not a new thing.

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

The easiest way to subjugate a people is to erase a culture. I've seen it in war zones.

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

I think there's definitely a stereotype of white privilege, and that stereotype gets expanded to mean rich, not oppressed, not suffering, et cetera. And yes, it's a misperception.

In the past, I think my films that focused on African subjects struggled in the marketplace because of their subject matter.

A lot of times, when you have a story of minorities in America, it's always this super, oppositional thing. It's segregation, it's the racism, and those are the hard facts of the story.

I feel like there's such ancient pain in us as humans. For instance, we come from this patriarchal lineage where women have been oppressed, and we're feeling, I think, collective pain from these energies being so out of balance.

I hope somewhere to break down what seems to be a kind of robotic communication between those in power and those who are understanding power.

That is just the reality of being a marginalized person in this country: you have to deal with the psychological impact of your oppressor - whether that's being a woman dealing with men or gay people dealing with straight people or trans people dealing with everybody else.

Why on earth would free people remain prisoners in a cage of absurd laws and regulation, with rigid constraints that humiliate the true needs of the people and their country?

We live in a country of grotesque inequalities.