Tony Cardenas Quotes

Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

The personal is political, but only to a point.

I got into this thing called the National Youth Theatre, and to me, that was all about the status quo. It seemed to me like 'Downton Abbey' - all the working-class and black people were playing servants, or the gravedigger in 'Hamlet,' and the boys from Eton and posh private schools got Hamlet, all the big roles.

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

The U. S, Social Security Act not only takes the Afro-American for a ride, but aids immediately in perpetuating his inferior status, What we see here, as in most other 'liberal' legislation, in a further stratifying of the Negro at the bottom of the ladder of life. .

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

America’s real majority is suffering a minority complex of neglect. They have become the real foes of Negro rights, foreign aid, etc, because … they feel forgotten, at the second table behind the tightly organized smaller groups at either end of the U. S. spectrum.

Keeping people on the margins of cultural, social and political life constitutes in many nations one of the most glaring injustices of our time.

Politicians have forced us into parallel societies by denying for so long that we existed and pretending for so long that we were going home.

Societies, which were separated earlier by distances and borders and therefore predominantly homogeneous, now come in touch easily and become multicultural. This process, however, has been accompanied by attempts to establish the dominion of the rich elite over the rest of the people and of some cultures and world views over others, which is especially intolerable in the religious field

Injustice which lasts for three long centuries and which exists among millions of people over thousands of square miles of territory, is injustice no longer; it is an accomplished fact of life. Men adjust themselves to their land; they create their own laws of being; their notions of right and wrong.

This case serves as an appalling reminder of the evils that result when large numbers of the politically powerless are placed at the mercy of institutions engendered and controlled by a politically powerful few.

Those who are most desperate for change are those who are the most powerless to effect it.

You can make too much of inequality because there is always so much of it.

Tackling inequality isn’t easy. It never has been and it never will be.

Knowing the horror that most women have of anything approaching irreverence, the Bible has been called out to play the part of a scarecrow on the rich fields of men’s monopolies…Men have had the management of all things human for six thousand years…Has the result been so eminently successful that we need dread a little change?

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

I'm interested in people who are dwelling outside the mainstream. And very often, those people happen to be woman of color.

The government at all levels is overly represented by white men. That's part of the problem, and I'm a white man.

There is one group that is more consistently portrayed as ineffectual, as unvirtuous, as incompetent, as objects of fun, and that is white working class guys.

I think that because human difference for so long, in all its various forms, has been the root of so much oppression, sometimes there's the impulse to say let's deny the difference, as though by wishing away the difference we can then wish away the oppression.