Diego Luna Quotes

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

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

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.

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

I hate systemic oppression in America.

I just have this thing about injustice. Everybody hates the big injustices - I know. But I hate even the little injustices, even the way a salesclerk treats somebody who is shabbily dressed and happens to go into a nice store.

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.

Society is better off without certain people.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.

To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation.

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.

If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler.

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right.