The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined.
Kimberle Williams CrenshawRead
I think it's useful to recall that a lot of these statutes like 'disrupting the classroom' or 'disturbing the peace' have long been historically used to oppress and criminalize black people.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote highlights how laws can be historically misused to target marginalized communities, particularly Black individuals.
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw emphasizes the historical misuse of laws like 'disrupting the classroom' and 'disturbing the peace' as tools for the oppression and criminalization of Black people. This underscores the importance of critically analyzing legal frameworks and their impact on marginalized groups, reminding us that legal language can often serve as a facade for systemic injustice.
Themes
JusticeOppressionLawsBlack PeopleMarginalization
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a speech about systemic racism in legal systems.
More from Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
All quotes →I have a wonderful, diverse, and young staff at the AAPF who pretty much work around the clock trying to figure out how we promote the idea that social justice requires us to be intersectional in our thinking and in our scope of vision.
Kimberle Williams CrenshawRead
If you don't have a lens that's been trained to look at how various forms of discrimination come together, you're unlikely to develop a set of policies that will be as inclusive as they need to be.
Kimberle Williams CrenshawRead
We have to move back to the idea that education isn't about teaching people to bow to rigid rules. That's not what democracy is about.
Kimberle Williams CrenshawRead
Having a monolithic view of feminism is suffocating.
Kimberle Williams CrenshawRead
We must begin to tell black women's stories because, without them, we cannot tell the story of black men, white men, white women, or anyone else in this country. The story of black women is critical because those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it.
Kimberle Williams CrenshawRead
Similar quotes
Our criminal-justice system has for decades been infected with a mindset that views black boys and men in particular as a problem to be dealt with, managed, and controlled.
Michelle AlexanderRead
The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.
John Greenleaf WhittierRead
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
AeschylusRead
We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load.
Malcolm XRead
When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the promise that capital punishment would be administered with fairness and justice. Instead, the promise has become a cruel and empty mockery. If not remedied, the scandalous state of our present system of capital punishment will cast a pall of shame over our society for years to come. We cannot let it continue.
Thurgood MarshallRead
Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.
Thomas JeffersonRead