Systemic Oppression Quotes

#1. The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

William Shakespeare

#2. You need to silence the voices that say you cannot do what you set out to.

David Waweru

#3. I agree with Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote, 'The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life'.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#4. And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

William Joyce

#5. I like spoken-word as much as the singing word.

Loren Mazzacane Connors

#6. People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

Alistair Cooke

#7. Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

Emily Saliers

#8. But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations.

Bootsy Collins

#9. Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.

Tom Scholz

#10. When female stories are muted, we are teaching our kids that their dignity is second class and the historical accounts of their lives [are] less relevant. This lowered value carries over when women face sexual objectification and systemic brutalization from inside and outside the community.

Aurin Squire

#11. To love is to tilt with the lightning, two bodies routed by a single honey's sweet.

Pablo Neruda

#12. In an age when we have more choice than ever before, more mobility, more information, more opportunity to fulfill ourselves, how is it that people can prefer to be identical?

John Brunner

#13. White people covered the earth like lice.

Louise Erdrich