Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
As quoted in Unexpected News : Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes (1984) by Robert McAfee Brown, p. 19
“I omit from consideration here the fact that people who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral, but in favor of the status quo.”
Attributed by internet sources to Enjoyment of Poetry: With Other Essays in Aesthetics (1939), but not confirmed. <br class="br">Source: Enjoyment of Poetry With Anthology for Enjoyment of Poetry (1951), p. 233 https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/oV5emKH2uhcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=status%20quo <br class="br">Source: The quote appears to have been first published in the essay "The Slogan, 'Propaganda Has No Place in Art,' Is The Symptom Of A Decaying Culture" https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/WX3NyDFUC_MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=eastman, Stage Magazine (1934).
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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
As quoted in Unexpected News : Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes (1984) by Robert McAfee Brown, p. 19
Context: If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Jasper Johns (1930) American artist
Quote from: Jasper Johns in Tokyo, Yoshiaki Tono, Tokyo August 1964, as cited in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 101
1960s
Elaine de Kooning (1918–1989) American painter
n. p.
1950 - 1971, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists' - Rosalyn Drexler with Elaine de Kooning (1971)
Paulo Freire (1921–1997) educator and philosopher
Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 3, on the oppressive status quo
“I blow my load over the status-quo, here we go.”
Josh Homme (1973) American musician
"Smooth Sailing", ...Like Clockwork (2013)
Lyrics, Queens of the Stone Age
PZ Myers (1957) American scientist and associate professor of biology
at Council for Secular Humanism, October 9, 2010.
Context: I have been told that my position won't win the creationist court cases. Do you think I care? I didn't become a scientist because I want to impress lawyers. The word for people who are neutral about truth is "liars".
“I give kudos to them for having the courage to bring me here… The risk is, I'm not the status quo.”
Jesse Ventura (1951) American politician and former professional wrestler
Harvard interview (February 2004)