Said Musa Quotes

Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like, so obsolete.

I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.

There are opportunities that I have because I'm a white dude, and it's controversial because that's just the way that the world we live in kind of is.

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.

The same way I'm not afraid of calling out systemic discrimination, I'm also not afraid of calling out inequality and the fact that inequality is growing in society and that affects everybody, regardless of race.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

Very often as a little girl, then as a young woman, I have suffered my lot of discrimination. I was brought up with brothers; I grew up in a boys' world. You have to elbow your way in. When you come with that sentiment of having been in a minority for a long period of time, then you are much more attentive to minorities.

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

Forever behind a woman is the mediaeval English common law which places upon her the stigma of inferiority and bondage

For a long time in the United States, in practice if not in principle, only white, male, Protestants were born free and equal.

The notion that all human beings born into this world enter at birth into a definite social and economic classification, in which classification they must remain permanently through life, is wholly false and fatal to a progressive civilization.

Apartheid is alive and well and it lives in our schools, and I'm sad to say it lives in the halls of the State legislature.

It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of the vote got away with calling itself the victim... Women are the only 'oppressed' group to share the same parents as the 'oppressor'; to be born into the middle class and upper class as frequently as the 'oppressor'; to own more of the culture's luxury items than the 'oppressor'..

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

That certain groups do much better in America than others—as measured by income, occupational status, test scores and so on – is difficult to talk about.

There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.

As income inequality increases, the social and political sway of those at the very, very top grows, too. They are nearly all men, and men whose lived experience tells them that women, for whatever reason, just don't have what it takes.

I have different privileges because I am a man, and I have to acknowledge that and realize that another person of color who is also a woman is having a different experience than I am.

As long as you are in that white privilege bubble, you don't need to see the world differently. You don't need to see the world through the eyes of minorities or women.

When you have a white male making the arguments, they carry more weight... Should they carry more weight? Absolutely not. But do they? Yes.