Safet Cinar Quotes

Keeping people on the margins of cultural, social and political life constitutes in many nations one of the most glaring injustices of our time.

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

Oppressed strangers in our land…

The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War II for no really good reason by our most liberal President. Browns have been abused as the new slave labor on farms. The blacks, who did not come here willingly, are now, more than a century after emancipation by Lincoln, still suffering a host of slavelike inequalities.

Muslims are gradually being excluded from the official positions altogether …. any answer for their degeneracy is one of the results of our political ignorance and neglect

There is no kind oppression visited on any minority in Europe which the six-county Nationalists have not endured.

One of the problems is that there are people in the shadows. There are people afraid of their own government

We should get rid of 'tick box' measures that do nothing to address underlying inequality in areas like employment. And we should interrogate the claims of victimization made by some organizations to get their slice of pie.

I know that when we deprive communities of their voice, it can be dangerous.

We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.

Issues affecting tribal communities have routinely been minimized and ignored.

The way we imagine discrimination or disempowerment often is more complicated for people who are subjected to multiple forms of exclusion. The good news is that intersectionality provides us a way to see it.

This is how systems of oppression work: The violence, discrimination, and stigma I face as a woman compounds the violence, discrimination, and stigma I face as a trans person, and vice versa.

What is it going to take to dismantle the systems that keep me from being able to live well and that keep me and so many other people from being able to access the things that we need and deserve?

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

Society is better off without certain people.

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

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

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.

I come from a place where we feel like we're not represented in the national media.

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?

Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.

You're going to relegate my history to a month.