Tammy Bruce Quotes

If any group wants to not be disenfranchised, then understanding that there's going to be a learning curve for people who have disenfranchised them is important.

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

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

Intersectionality is not easy. It's not as though the existing frameworks that we have - from our culture, our politics, or our law - automatically lead people to being conversant and literate in intersectionality.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

People don't want to have to justify their privileges; they don't want to have to justify having access to the power and resource that wealth brings. And by not talking about it, they are able to hold onto their power without being questioned, and I think that makes them feel more secure.

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

The fight still isn't people of colour versus white. It's the people versus the system built to keep us down. That's the first line of the Constitution. And the system is manmade but is made of no man. Everyone, regardless of class, creed, culture and ethnicity can fight the system and help to break it down.

When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

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

It's always going to be a fight for anyone who isn't an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn't have a fight.

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.'

We'll always be re-examining how we relate to each other in terms of race and gender, in terms of power and access.

The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture.

No one really believes in equality who's on top.

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.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

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.

You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

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

It is feasible for someone who comes from a privileged background to understand the privilege they have had and to use the formal political arena in a way that would disperse power and engage with people in their own lives.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff.