Anita Hill Quotes

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

An issue between a people and a class

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

…to make a commonwealth is to divide it into parties, which setteth them at perpetual variance, the one party endeavouring to preserve their eminence and inequality, and the other to attain their equality.

…in every city are found two diverse humors, and this arises from the fact that the common people desire neither to be commanded nor oppressed by the great, and the powerful men desire to command and oppress the people..

Sex and race, because they are easy, visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups, and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends.

In every revolution, there are winners and losers. Every dystopia is a utopia for somebody else. It just depends where you are. Are you in the class that benefits, or are you in the class that's not?

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

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

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

Multiculturalism isn't about culture, it's about power.

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

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

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.

Revolution applies a local anaesthetic to one class of society and operates on the other.

Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.

Justice often means taking power from some who have it and giving it to some who do not.

... this is a grievance society and that if you want to get into its leading edge you pretty well have to be a victim.

Strong language is in the nature of the dialogue between the dispossessed and their possessors …. Words become weapons rather than tools.

Is the great working class oppressed? Yes, undoubtedly it is. God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little.

The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.

Man has set man against man, Washed against unwashed.