Krystal Ball Quotes

I know that when we deprive communities of their voice, it can be dangerous.

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system.

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

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

Nobody calls on black women to find out what they're thinking about because we're always part of somebody else's agenda.

Silence the voices of some in order to hear the voices of others. Sometimes there is no other way.

I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slaver's scars, I am the Red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek— And finding only the same ole stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

We Blacks have a long history of serving as cannon fodder for interests that are not our own.

Those who are most desperate for change are those who are the most powerless to effect it.

I've endlessly found myself in rooms of men and had the experience of feeling I wasn't being heard. It's a confidence thing.

There's a lot of talk now about the PC police, and 'why is everything bad?' It isn't. What it is, is that marginalized and oppressed people who have never had a soapbox, who have never been given a microphone, suddenly have a microphone.

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.

That is just the reality of being a marginalized person in this country: you have to deal with the psychological impact of your oppressor - whether that's being a woman dealing with men or gay people dealing with straight people or trans people dealing with everybody else.

There is a lot of talent and a lot of good things happening and coming from Molenbeek, but unfortunately, it has had to deal with a very, very long time of being ignored, really, and it was very easy, even in the neighbourhood where I grew up, to just fall off the grid, and nobody would notice it.

The way we imagine discrimination or disempowerment often is more complicated for people who are subjected to multiple forms of exclusion. The good news is that intersectionality provides us a way to see it.

I don't belong to anything, nobody's listening to me and I don't have any levers that control my own life.

The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.

We have been listening year after year to [white people] and what have we got? We are not even allowed to think for ourselves. "I know what is best for you," but they don't know what is best for us! It is time now to let them know what they owe us, and they owe us a great deal.