Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn’t be prey to the employers who say, ‚We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.‘
Ruth Bader GinsburgUntil justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Lyndon B. JohnsonWhere globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
Nelson MandelaAll men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
PlatoYou can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
Huey NewtonViolence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.
Martin Luther King, Jr.My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
Barack ObamaInjustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
H. L. MenckenA black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.
Maya AngelouI can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.
Fidel CastroWe pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
Nelson MandelaMan, all lives matter.
Kevin GatesHere’s the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it’s put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don’t call them a white film. I’m trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.
Kevin HartEvery immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Theodore RooseveltWe have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
Huey NewtonYou’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
BonoPeoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
Fidel CastroThe sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
Maya AngelouI should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
Abraham LincolnIt’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.
The WeekndI disagree with any policy that would turn America’s back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.
Kamala HarrisI know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin‘ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.
Muhammad AliI always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.
Lady GagaThat government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Thomas JeffersonTo like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
E. E. CummingsWhen will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor RooseveltTo all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
Alexander HamiltonUndocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law, and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would take.
Ruth Bader GinsburgIn the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.
Barack ObamaIt has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Mahatma GandhiWe are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.
Michelle ObamaAt the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
Jimmy CarterThe argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.
Noam ChomskyIf you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
Virginia WoolfThe Nation of Islam’s main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn’t want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people’s neighborhoods?
Muhammad AliGenerally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?
Anne FrankI should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
Nelson MandelaToday, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.
Jackie RobinsonIncome inequity has to be addressed.
Joe BidenThe trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
Alice WalkerGiving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
H. L. MenckenYou definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.
Kevin HartBecause we’re Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, where he became the managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam.
Anne FrankBlack Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
Huey NewtonYou know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.
Alice WalkerWomen should be obscene and not heard.
Groucho MarxWhen the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.
Maya AngelouWhere you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
BonoLet me state the obvious. Illegal immigration is illegal, duh.
John KennedyWhite people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.
Muhammad AliI think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
Dolores HuertaHating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.
Muhammad AliA calling is you feel – you look out and see the need – maybe it’s the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it’s the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was – felt called.
Billy GrahamUntil blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear.
Maya AngelouI want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.For years, decades, the system has taught us to stay quiet. They’ve made us believe that those who take to the streets to speak up are crazy, criminals, troublemakers.
Bad BunnyThere is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
Fidel CastroI’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.
Desmond Tutu