Charles M. Blow Quotes

Minorities…are almost always in the right.

In my work as an actress and an activist, I've spent many years working with low income communities and people of color who don't always have a voice in our political process.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people.

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

If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected – those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! – and listens to their testimony.

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

Those who are most desperate for change are those who are the most powerless to effect it.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

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

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.

I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering.

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

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

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

I usually play disenfranchised youth.

Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.

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

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

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

Perhaps the most important people that I should photograph are the people who don't have a voice.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.