Dan Reynolds Quotes

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

I like having my mistakes corrected, but I wonder if it's because you're forced to have a certain humility if you're not an affluent white man.

I think that liberal straight white men really need to stop patting themselves on the back for what they think they think and actually take a look at their actions.

I think that, by and large, the predominant voice we hear in rock music is a white male voice.

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

… 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.

I love how when I say the world is still run by men, and sometimes I say the world is still run by white men, people gasp as if that's news. That's not news. That's obvious.

We live in a world that does not recognize virtually anyone outside of the white male or the beautiful white woman who has to be an object of desire and affection.

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.

When the #MeToo movement started and went viral, it was everyday people all around the world. The fact that the stories continue to be about famous white women has everything to do with who the media places attention on.

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

The personal is political, but only to a point.

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.

I felt that what is personal is political.

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

What does America love more than one white male?

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.