Michael Avenatti Quotes

To be white and male is not to be sexist and racist.

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

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

Everyone knows that life isn't fair. Saying it's not fair suggests that you think life is supposed to be fair, which makes you look immature and naive.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

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

Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.

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

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

I'll take discrimination if it's in my favor!

I am a candidate for the Presidency of the United States. I make that statement proudly in the full knowledge that, as a Black person and as a female person, I do not have a chance of actually gaining that office in this election year.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

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'..

People should not have all these privileges and advantages just because they emerged from the right vagina.

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.

Whether I realize it or not, I have benefitted from my skin color and my gender - and those of a different gender or sexuality or skin color have suffered because of it.

The white actresses I have known have been allowed to do 10 times more than I shall ever do.

Too often, customary practices and discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnicity, race, religion, social status, or class are the root sources of pervasive inequality in many countries.

People notice if you are black. People notice if you are female. We are certainly not either colorblind or gender-blind in this country, so I'm not suggesting that it isn't a factor. But I think in the final analysis, people will take a look at the positions, and they'll take a look at the issues.

It must be so nice to be a white male.

To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination.

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.

The Ledbetter Act is aimed at equality. But individuals are not equal. We all have different talents, resources, interests, abilities, educations, and backgrounds.

I think that if I was a white male people would get me more. I do. I think that. I think a lot of things would make more sense if I was a guy and if I had people supporting me and saying this is the greatest thing in the world.