Katherine Langford Quotes

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

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

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

The instant people specialize, it's in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.

I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

The gay male is always going to be at the bottom.

When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.

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.

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness.

Not only are whites kicking us; they are telling us how to react to being kicked.

Social injustice is such a familiar phenomenon ... that it is readily regarded as something natural, even by its victims.

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty often have a share in their misfortunes.

I resent anyone coming in and claiming to be a minority as I am.

Whenever there are enclosing walls, there are abuses behind them.

Social change can be painful for all involved—oppressor and oppressed.

Brother! We have, as your friends, fought by your side, and have poured out our blood in your defense, but our arms are now broken. You have grown large. My people have become small, and there are none who take pity on them.

We have a tendency in life to be afraid of our oppressors.

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.

There is a great fear of our Union -- a fear that I do not fully understand, but that I know is present...What is it that causes some men to act so hastily and so cruelly? It cannot be that we are so powerful. Is it so much to ask that the poorest people of the land have a measure of justice?

I would like to share with you my plan to destroy America…. I would invest in ethnic identity and victimology. I would get them to think that their lack of success was only the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry.