Race And Class Quotes

“To be white, or straight, or male, or middle class is to be simultaneously ubiquitious and invisible. You’re everywhere you look, you’re the standard against which everyone else is measured. You’re like water, like air. People will tell you they went to see a “woman doctor” or they will say they went to see “the doctor.” People will tell you they have a “gay colleague” or they’ll tell you about a colleague. A white person will be happy to tell you about a “Black friend,” but when that same person simply mentions a “friend,” everyone will assume the person is white. Any college course that doesn’t have the word “woman” or “gay” or “minority” in its title is a course about men, heterosexuals, and white people. But we call those courses “literature,” “history” or “political science.”

This invisibility is political.”
― Michael S. Kimmel, Privilege: A Reader

“I will now reveal a secret that lawyers, its professors, and most significantly its judges especially those with the most power such as the Supremes work constantly to hide and that they use to make law school appear to be and seem difficult: the law is what judges on any particular day say the law is. We are not governed by the rule of law but by the rule of judges. Maybe there was such a thing as the rule of law at one time when legal cases involved deciding whether Farmer A’s cow trespassed on Farmer B’s property but in a Technological Society in which all words are vague and all rules indeterminate, any set of facts can be made to comply or to be in violation of any rule. They all do it, conservative, liberal, or whatever.”
― Valeriano Diviacchi, They Hate If You're Clever and Despise a Fool: Race and Class: A View from the Bottom Up