Claire Fox Quotes

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.

Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure. No wonder it has been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

The one thing that never changes in America is that the white straight male is born with a promise. Women are not promised very much, and we embody our disappointment from the beginning.

I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater.

Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.

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

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'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'

As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.

I do not have the answers and as a woman I do not intend to play my own thoughts over the truth. I can clearly state the problems and tell you that I suffer from them.

Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.

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

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'

For a long time in the United States, in practice if not in principle, only white, male, Protestants were born free and equal.

Choose equality …. Inequality has the natural and necessary effect … of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

… as long as men, even socialist men, even the best men in the world, make laws these will be to their advantage and to our disadvantage.

It's always going to be a fight for anyone who isn't an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn't have a fight.

Sometimes, you feel like, 'Am I going to be upset about this as a black person or as a woman first? Or am I gonna be both?' Because some things inherently affect black women; some things affect you as a woman and not a black person; and some things just affect you as a black person.

When I talk about feminism, sometimes I feel like being a black woman is cast aside.

In the absurd idiocy of identity regressive politics, looting is seen as protest, and protecting one's own property is seen as privilege.

I don't hear women who are less privileged thinking they're entitled to everything, whenever they want it. That's a privilege phenomenon, but it is a phenomenon.

It must be so nice to be a white male.

The point of privilege and the notion of mansplaining is that sometimes I definitely feel like I should shut up. That's it functioning. That's the notion of privilege functioning.