Maggie Kuhn Quotes

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

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

Terrorism thrives when the gap between the 'haves' and 'have nots' becomes so wide and when the 'have nots' reach the point of such desperation, pain, and agony that they have nothing to lose.

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.

Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.

It's easier to blame the person with less power.

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

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

Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.

I hate systemic oppression in America.

Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

The more powerless people are, the longer they are kept waiting.

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.

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

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

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

All oppression creates a state of war.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

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.

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.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

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.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

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