Holly Near Quotes

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

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.

When the #MeToo movement started and went viral, it was everyday people all around the world. The fact that the stories continue to be about famous white women has everything to do with who the media places attention on.

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

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.

Like it or not, most things in this country are run by white males.

… as long as men, even socialist men, even the best men in the world, make laws these will be to their advantage and to our disadvantage.

I'm about as privileged as you can get. I'm a white, male, heterosexual front man of a rock band.

I'm still angry at so much - class, gender, society, the way we are constantly mentally coerced into behaving a certain way without us even knowing it. I feel so oppressed by the weight of it all that I just want to blow a hole in it all.

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

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.

The personal is political, but only to a point.

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

It is feasible for someone who comes from a privileged background to understand the privilege they have had and to use the formal political arena in a way that would disperse power and engage with people in their own lives.

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.

What does America love more than one white male?

Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed.