Alicia Garza Quotes

Keeping people on the margins of cultural, social and political life constitutes in many nations one of the most glaring injustices of our time.

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.

I think that because human difference for so long, in all its various forms, has been the root of so much oppression, sometimes there's the impulse to say let's deny the difference, as though by wishing away the difference we can then wish away the oppression.

Awkwardness comes from the realization that, when you look around the world, it's difficult to identify anyone who isn't either the victim or the beneficiary of injustice.

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

You can make too much of inequality because there is always so much of it.

Tackling inequality isn’t easy. It never has been and it never will be.

Resentment — that feeling when the modern promise of equality collides with massive disparities of power, education, status and property ownership.

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.

Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.

We should get rid of 'tick box' measures that do nothing to address underlying inequality in areas like employment. And we should interrogate the claims of victimization made by some organizations to get their slice of pie.

I'm a straight white man - I have options, and I'm not blocked on a consistent basis when I wake up in the morning because of my race, sex, and orientation.

I both love inequality and am terrified of it.

My whiteness, economic privilege, able-bodied privilege, family support, and so many other factors shield me from some of the worst possible consequences - often fatal ones - that result from the toxic combination of misogyny, racism, and anti-trans sentiment.

In practice, intersectionality functions as kind of caste system, in which people are judged according to how much their particular caste has suffered throughout history.

Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social justice does is destroy individual responsibility.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

I am afraid that if you don't find peaceful domestic solutions to our inequality and social problems, then it's always tempting to find other people responsible for our problems.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.