Malcolm Jenkins Quotes

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

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.

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

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

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

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

Will the American People Never Cease to Oppress and Torture the Helpless poor?

We have a lot of people that are oppressed. We have a lot of people that aren't treated equally, aren't given equal opportunities. Police brutality is a huge thing that needs to be addressed. There are a lot of issues that need to be talked about, need to be brought to life, and we need to fix those.

The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity.

Indians are first class people suffering from third class governance.

Oppression doesn't disappear just because you decided not to teach us that chapter.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

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.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

All oppression creates a state of war.

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

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

I do not have the answers and as a woman I do not intend to play my own thoughts over the truth. I can clearly state the problems and tell you that I suffer from them.

I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.