Jung Chang Quotes

Racism is a problem everywhere, especially in this country, but all over the world, and especially within queer space.

By definition, of course, we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human. On this assumption we exercise varieties of discrimination, through which we effectively, if often unthinkingly, reduce his life chances.

What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid.

In the West or anywhere else, the treatment of people in an undignified way (structural and institutionalized racism against Latinos or African American citizens) as well as a dangerous dehumanization of some people (in Palestine, Iraq, Africa or Asia) are simply unacceptable.

People who had been treated inhumanly, not given a chance to secure any foot on any ladder - and all the social mores were suddenly abandoned.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

The few lighter persons in the community drew together; we were literally thrown upon each other, whether we liked or not. But when we began going about together and spending our time in each other’s society, a howl went up. We were organizing a "blue vein" society. We were mistresses of white men. We were Lesbians. We hated black folk and plotted against them. As a matter of fact, we had no other recourse but to cling together.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

With what moral authority can they [the U. S.] speak of human rights — the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated?

Discrimination is not a national defense strategy!

We have a lot of people that are oppressed. We have a lot of people that aren't treated equally, aren't given equal opportunities. Police brutality is a huge thing that needs to be addressed. There are a lot of issues that need to be talked about, need to be brought to life, and we need to fix those.

Injustice is either very blatant - you walk down the street and someone calls you a name; you don't get a job because of your gender or your skin color or your sexual preference - but injustice is also very subliminal.

Each one of my movies is going to be about one of these different social demons. The first one, being 'Get Out,' is about race and neglect and marginalization.

When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that's been discriminated against, knows what it's like.

We deserve to live in a world where there's no impunity, but beyond this question of impunity, there are all these structures that are actually doing a disservice to our people.

For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia.

We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.

I'm sick of seeing the immigrants in the hotels and the Italians who sleep in cars. This is the racist country.

Trans justice calls on us to combat the blend of prejudices that demean the lives and diminish the autonomy of another person.

I fight against racism and bigotry because I care about the people who are experiencing it.

This is true across every single society; we project grossness onto a racial or gender subgroup or caste. A big part of social subordination and discrimination is to ascribe hyper-animality to other groups and use that as an excuse for subordinating them further.