Angelica Ross Quotes

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

It's always going to be a fight for anyone who isn't an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn't have a fight.

Intersectionality is not easy. It's not as though the existing frameworks that we have - from our culture, our politics, or our law - automatically lead people to being conversant and literate in intersectionality.

I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

I think society is both something that's very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic.

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

… as long as men, even socialist men, even the best men in the world, make laws these will be to their advantage and to our disadvantage.

We live in a classist, racist, homophobic society into which we are very assimilated, that's all. I'm not really proud about that.

In fact, the religious right consists of an alliance of several groups that, without experiencing anything like the oppression visited on black Americans, have consistently occupied lower rungs in the American social hierarchy.

It's not like a choice to have an identity politics discussion when you're living it all the time. And if it's uncomfortable, well then maybe the way that we need to deal with that is by letting things be uncomfortable.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

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.

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.

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.

We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.

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

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

The fight still isn't people of colour versus white. It's the people versus the system built to keep us down. That's the first line of the Constitution. And the system is manmade but is made of no man. Everyone, regardless of class, creed, culture and ethnicity can fight the system and help to break it down.

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

I want nothing to do with privilege.