Che Guevara Quotes

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.

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.

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

I'm not going to be intimidated by people or identity politics. I think that's a dead end.

Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.

I am not too interested in leaving the street people and joining the Establishment. I prefer street folks.

If you're mocking anyone, make sure it's those at the top of the food chain, not the bottom.

Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social justice does is destroy individual responsibility.

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.

What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can't be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.

I'm not a fan of identity politics.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

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

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

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

If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

I remember being taught my place.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

I resent anyone coming in and claiming to be a minority as I am.