Bari Weiss Quotes

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

A lot of people think that intersectionality is only about identity. But it's also about how race and gender are structured in particular workforces.

Awkwardness comes from the realization that, when you look around the world, it's difficult to identify anyone who isn't either the victim or the beneficiary of injustice.

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.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

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

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

The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.

I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.

There is no caste in blood.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of the half of society over which the other half has power—from the exercises of the right of the strongest.

An issue between a people and a class

In India, cast not class … is what counts most in popular life.

The idea of the nation [India] itself is incompatible with the institution of caste.

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.

There's this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do when they say that you need to separate class from race is that they are really just saying that people of color should come second.

Today, we seem to be striving towards injustice, applauding it as though it's a worthy dream, made sacred by the caste system.

Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.

The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own time.

Cultural inequality is not grounded in race or ethnicity.

Victimhood, in the intersectional way of seeing the world, is akin to sainthood; power and privilege are profane.

We should get rid of 'tick box' measures that do nothing to address underlying inequality in areas like employment. And we should interrogate the claims of victimization made by some organizations to get their slice of pie.