Jose Padilha Quotes

I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.

The whole issue of race and discrimination is a moral issue.

The Achilles' heel of the left has been its dependence on menace for power. Think of all the things it can ask for in the name of fighting menaces like 'systemic racism' and 'structural inequality.'

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

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.

I want nothing to do with privilege.

Every type of discrimination whether social or cultural, whether based on sex, race, social condition, language or religion, is to be overcome and eradicated as contrary to God's intent.

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

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

Moral indignation has a way of obscuring sober reasoning, and those who speak of privilege are often primed (by professors, peers, and media) to actively seek out moral transgressions. As such, many backwards beliefs and harmful attitudes have found a toehold amongst “privileged” millennials, who presume their views to be self-evidently righteous and thus not up for debate. Many of these views, were they to become widespread, would lead to the destruction of the privileges that we in the developed world are so fortunate to enjoy. These include free expression, freedom of the press, freedom of peaceful assembly, the rule of law, and ongoing efforts to judge people not by their phenotype but rather by their actions.

There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country... I stand with those opposing such bigotry.

It's always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.

I feel that discrimination and hierarchy is something that people have to face constantly.

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

We're not children here. The law is-how should I put it? A convenience. Or a convenience for some people, and an inconvenience for other people.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

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.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.