Quotes About Injustice

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery other than in prisons - but it was a lie that you regained your freedom once you left the prison gates.

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

Gitmo is everywhere in the world. We need to raise awareness of illegal prisons in Middle East, Asia, and Africa. This needs to be brought to the attention of the U.N. This needs to stop.

I don't believe in private education.

When you're accustomed to privilege, parity and equity and equality may feel like oppression.

I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.

I'm not exceptional. I didn't grow up with privilege.

In America, a black man has to feel like he's God just to make it a little bit when white people can just feel human. They can just be themselves, but for me, I feel we have to start instilling that back into our people. That pride. That black power. That privilege to be alive.

As long as you are in that white privilege bubble, you don't need to see the world differently. You don't need to see the world through the eyes of minorities or women.

We know that racism and white privilege are both very much alive today.

Obviously white privilege is a thing, 1000%.

The journey of making 'Hidden Figures' has shown me the automatic privilege that all white men are afforded in America in 2017 and in any and every year before that.

Being a woman means that my male privilege seeped out of my body.

What I believe about race is that race is not real. It's not a biological reality. It's a hierarchical system that was created to leverage power and privilege between different groups of people.

When those with wealth and power fear that their privilege is even mildly challenged, they invariably clothe themselves in the garbs of victimhood.

You want to find the balance of acknowledging privilege and acknowledging the disadvantages that you have.

My privilege as a celebrity doesn't disallow me pain.

If you're White then yes, you have White privilege. It's there for the taking if you choose to use it, you know, just keeping it 100.

'Article 15' actually is not about the Dalits. It is about us privileged people. What is it that we have done, what is it that we have been doing and what is it that we should be doing?

I didn't even realize I was quite privileged. But I am. I got money. I've never been stopped by a police officer.

Freedom in America was not always flat. Racism made it un-flat, so that some people had privileges over other people.

As an African-American, as a woman, I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down, never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important.

You don't see black people winning Nobel prizes for physics or economics or any of the industries or institutions that shape the way the world operates.

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.