Theodore Kaczynski Quotes

The elites benefit from affirmative action programs even when those programs are designed to help the masses.

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

Those who are privileged have little regard for history.

We cannot rebuild the American Dream here at home by catering to the voices of the privileged and powerful.

I think Black Lives Matter has some really thuggish elements in it. Look - at the risk of being incredibly politically incorrect, but I guess that's my job - I think that all lives matter. Not least black lives.

Politically it's easy to salve one's conscience, no matter that salving it rarely makes the problem go away. You join the Labour Party, write articles attacking the privileged, give the money you spend on opera tickets to homeless charities, and vow never to go to anything that can be considered elitist again.

My issue with all sort of social justice stuff and leftie stuff, and I would put myself on a social justice leftie side, is some of the terminology is jargon.

Just me existing, as an openly black transgender woman from a working-class background, thriving, is a political act. My brother always reminds me that if you are black in America and you're alive, you deserve a round of applause. There are so many forces that don't want us to be alive, and so just being openly who I am, and happy and thriving, is a political act.

Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.

What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them.

I fully realize that a person who stands for what I stand for, an activist, a gay activist, becomes the target or the potential target for a person who is insecure, terrified, afraid, or very disturbed with themselves.

What the Black lives matter movement is doing is they are making it personal. They are making it hash tagged, exposing the racial injustice that continues to haunt our country in a way that you can't ignore. There is power in injustice becoming personal.

It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.

If your white privilege and class privilege protects you, then you have an obligation to use that privilege to take stands that work to end the injustice that grants that privilege in the first place.

Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.

Often those who are denied rights are least empowered to bring about the changes they seek.

Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.

People are killed because they're gay. I don't think, "What do I want to do today? I want to speak up on gay rights." No. It's God catching me by my neck. I wish I could keep quiet about the plight of the Palestinians. I can't!

Black Lives Matter is the ultimate divisive movement.

After the second chapter of Days of Obligation, which is about the death of a friend of mine from AIDS, was published in Harper's, I got this rather angry letter from a gay-and-lesbian group that was organizing a protest against the magazine. It was the same old problem: political groups have almost no sense of irony.

Woke ideology is a form of cultural Marxism.

If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me.

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

In one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether “we, the people” is a moral compact embedded in a political contract or merely a charade masquerading as piety and manipulated by the powerful and privileged to sustain their own way of life at the expense of others.