Gilbert Cassellas Quotes

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

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

I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.

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.

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose; while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose, especially their lives.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

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

An issue between a people and a class

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

He apologizes for injustice …. Belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions…. He should be unceasingly and firmly opposed.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

In the beginning, all men were alike and they lived in peace and they shared among them what they had. But now there are two kinds of men, the master and the slave. But there are more of us than there are of you, many more. And we are stronger than you, better than you. All that is good in mankind belongs to us.

I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled.

I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.

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.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

Injustice can never be stood for.

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

The world is an enormous injustice.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

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

I want nothing to do with privilege.