Cole Sprouse Quotes

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

Old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the category of American with others on equal terms.

The Declaration of Independence was written by white men for white men.

When Trump was elected, it gave white men - particularly white men in power - full, unfettered permission to say or do whatever they want without consequence.

There are all kinds of ways in which especially white men in this country have been helped by the government.

It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

I think that, by and large, the predominant voice we hear in rock music is a white male voice.

The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

For a long time in the United States, in practice if not in principle, only white, male, Protestants were born free and equal.

Champion of White Men's Rule and Woman's Virtue

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

When you teach black people that they are less beautiful, less moral, less intelligent, and as a result you defer to the white supremacist status quo, you rationalize your accommodation to the status quo, you lose your fire, you become much more tied to producing foliage, what appears to be the case.

Of course there's systemic misogyny in certain parts of our culture and systemic racism and a wider range of insults women have to face.

I love how when I say the world is still run by men, and sometimes I say the world is still run by white men, people gasp as if that's news. That's not news. That's obvious.

It must be so nice to be a white male.

America was made for white men. Literally, at the time of the writing of the new country's Constitution, only white men could own land, and only men who owned land could vote.

We live in a society that has a long history of not valuing people of color or women.

There is one place left in which open racism can be practiced institutionally in the U.S. today, that is through this diversity/equity movement, in which it appears to be that you can be openly anti-white, openly anti-straight, openly anti-male, and this is considered progressive.

Progress has always been understood to be driven by exceptional white men. Whether it's the military victories we've achieved, the philosophical foundations that are the underpinnings of the nation, or our economic ingenuity, all this has been articulated through narratives of exceptional white men.

People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful white male

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.

Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.

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.

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.