67 Quotes About Identity-politics

You and I are the remains of an unfulfilled legacy, heirs to a kingdom of stolen identities and ragged confusion.

I embrace identity politics because for the marginalized, the disadvantaged, and the minority groups still grappling for purchase in our politics, identity is the strongest defense against invisibility.

You only define yourself. And you do the defining. Don't let anyone box you into an identity of their choosing.

If you can't see past my name, you can't see me.

But as important as material self-interest is, human beings are motivated by other things as well, motives that better explain the disparate events of the present. This might be called the politics of resentment. In a wide variety of cases, a political leader has mobilized followers around the perception that the group’s dignity had been affronted, disparaged, or otherwise disregarded. This resentment engenders demands for public recognition of the dignity of the group in question.

Contemporary identity politics is driven by the quest for equal recognition by groups that have been marginalized by their societies. But that desire for equal recognition can easily slide over into a demand for recognition of the group’s superiority.

Who am I, really?” The search for an answer produces feelings of alienation and anxiety and can only be relieved when one accepts that inner self and receives public recognition for it.

It is, in particular, important to distinguish between the inclusionary role of identity and the exclusionary force of separatism.

The excesses of identity politics pale in comparison to the monolithic normative realities that dominate our culture.