Ana Navarro Quotes

I have different privileges because I am a man, and I have to acknowledge that and realize that another person of color who is also a woman is having a different experience than I am.

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

I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

What does America love more than one white male?

For more than six thousand years the history of woman has been one of hopeless sadness. She moved only to the clank of chains, and her vain desire for better and higher things could not find expression, for woman was by force of circumstances inarticulate. Detraction of one sex and exaltation of the other became a habit of mind expressed in law, in religion, in literature as well as in the ordinary activities of everyday life.

Opportunity seems to be color-coded here in America

It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of the vote got away with calling itself the victim... Women are the only 'oppressed' group to share the same parents as the 'oppressor'; to be born into the middle class and upper class as frequently as the 'oppressor'; to own more of the culture's luxury items than the 'oppressor'..

Saudi women far outnumber their male counterparts on university campuses but are reduced to watching men far less qualified control every aspect of their lives.

To be white and male is not to be sexist and racist.

Freedom in America was not always flat. Racism made it un-flat, so that some people had privileges over other people.

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.

I know how difficult it is to be not just a woman, but a black woman, and I know how much we get attacked and our voices aren't heard. I experience it every single day.

In a sense, we are all victims of the misogyny and racism that exist in the world, no matter what our gender or race happens to be.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

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

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Women are so powerful they're scary, and the incentive to squash this has been going on for so long that some of us actually believe we're subordinate.

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

I hate to say this about the Republican establishment, but their view of Civil Rights is to tip the black waiter five bucks at the country club.

Forever behind a woman is the mediaeval English common law which places upon her the stigma of inferiority and bondage

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