Kanye West Quotes

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

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

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.

I hate systemic oppression in America.

People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful white male

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

You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality for somebody else. Let's pass it on. Let's pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality.

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

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

Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

Justice often means taking power from some who have it and giving it to some who do not.

Social injustice is such a familiar phenomenon ... that it is readily regarded as something natural, even by its victims.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Even though the founders were aggressive in pursuing liberty, their quest for equality failed to include all.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

… 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.

Resentment — that feeling when the modern promise of equality collides with massive disparities of power, education, status and property ownership.

I think that because human difference for so long, in all its various forms, has been the root of so much oppression, sometimes there's the impulse to say let's deny the difference, as though by wishing away the difference we can then wish away the oppression.