Yoshihide Suga Quotes

America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

Power, privilege, and violence are not, and never were, strictly Southern issues in America.

Let's demonstrate, illustrate, the ways in which our communities are being undermined time and time again, and make sure that the broader public and those in power choose to stand with us.

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

The personal is political, but only to a point.

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

The fight still isn't people of colour versus white. It's the people versus the system built to keep us down. That's the first line of the Constitution. And the system is manmade but is made of no man. Everyone, regardless of class, creed, culture and ethnicity can fight the system and help to break it down.

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

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

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

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

When the producers of 'Why Poverty?' came to me to do a film about poverty in the United States, I asked if I could do a film about wealth instead. I tend to make films about perpetrators, rather than victims.

Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

The historical method is often deemed conservative, because it traces the gradual and stately growth of our venerable institutions; but it may exercise a precisely opposite influence by showing the gross injustice which was blindly perpetrated during this growth. The historical method is supposed to prove that economic changes have been the inevitable outcome of natural laws. It just as often proves them to have been brought about by the self-seeking action of dominant classes.

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.

If any group wants to not be disenfranchised, then understanding that there's going to be a learning curve for people who have disenfranchised them is important.

The personal is political for so many.

I'm a straight white man - I have options, and I'm not blocked on a consistent basis when I wake up in the morning because of my race, sex, and orientation.