“Enjoy tonight, because guess what? The women and the blacks and the minorities and the trans people are coming to eat your privilege. We are hungry as hell, because we haven’t had a meal in centuries.”— Jon Brown, Casey, Mary McCormack, imdb.com
“We deserve to have our stories told in the mainstream — the good, the bad, and the ugly — but it is worth thinking about whose comfort is being prioritized when it comes to the way those stories are packaged and sold.”— Shannon Keating, buzzfeed.com
“It is hard to consider women a 'discrete and insular minority', unable to employ the 'political processes ordinarily to be relied upon' when they constitute a majority of the electorate. And the suggestion that they are incapable of exerting that political power smacks of the same paternalism that t…”— Antonin Scalia, oyez.org
“In time of war, the general social condition is fertile soil for the development of hate and fear, and transference of these to minority groups is quite simple.”— Bayard Rustin, explorepahistory.com
“I just don't think equality is there at all. And it's not only women. It's inequality for young people, old people, women, minorities—there's no balance. We're seeing that in the world. People feeling that there's an incredible lack of genuine fairness.”— Danny DeVito, theguardian.com
“Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.”— James K. Polk, presidential-power.org
“By the theory of our Government majorities rule, but this right is not an arbitrary or unlimited one. It is a right to be exercised in subordination to the Constitution and in conformity to it. One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching…”— James K. Polk, yale.edu
“Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians! It's no different! It is the same thing! It is happening all over again! It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians! Wholesal…”— Pat Robertson, news.google.com
“Asking protestors to remain non-violent as Nazis approach them is in effect, asking those of us who are the target of Nazi violence, to be willing to die for the sake of liberal sensibilities. You don’t have to support violence yourself or go out and punch a Nazi, but do not ask marginalized people…”— Abdullah Shihipar, qz.com
“I am used to being an observer. I am used to not getting what I want. I am used to imagining what it must be like.”— Cherríe Moraga, amazon.com
“Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race—the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress yo…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com