James Hillman Quotes

There are a lot of leaders that talk about ending things like oppression - whether it's discrimination or getting a job - but the reason for all of this stuff is somebody's making a profit off our backs. That's the reason why black people were brought here in the first place. It was a profit motive.

Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.

It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.

One must denounce the economic, financial, and social mechanisms and structures that are manipulated by the rich and powerful for their own benefit at the expense of the poor

Unevenness of economic and political development is the inflexible law of capitalism.

We cannot utilize our plenty because we have established a system under which it cannot be utilized unless it can be sold.

We're not a racist organization, because we understand that racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is just - it's a byproduct of capitalism.

Racism is very characteristic of imperialism. Racism is very characteristic of capitalism.

Like coal, capitalism has brought many benefits. But, like coal, it now causes more harm than good.

American inequality didn't just happen. It was created.

You can't have capitalism without racism.

Capitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands of a few people.

I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.

Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.

I do have a problem with developments that hyper-exploit politically vulnerable communities for profit. That it continues is a shame upon us all, because we are all responsible for the future that we create.

You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are not living in slums because they voted to. You know, their children are not in jail because they wanted them to. You know, these are the results of a people who have been oppressed and suffer national oppression, you know.

Racists seem obsessed by the idea that illegal workers - the hardest-working, poorest people in America - are somehow getting away with something, sneaking goodies that should be for Americans. You can always avoid this problem by having no social services. This is the refreshing Texas model, and it works a treat.

Capitalism is destroying the world.

Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.

Trump is literally the epitome of evil, all the evils of this country - be it racism, capitalism, sexism, homophobia.

The point is always made that capitalism is efficient, people say 'You might not like it, but it works.' But Britain is not efficient.

Capitalism might everywhere be spreading havoc, but it is also triumphant everywhere.

My perspective of capitalism growing up in Berkeley, Calif. in a low-income project, growing up poor, is that capitalism wanted to destroy me, they wanted me to become a worker.