Calling for an end to hate shouldn't be treated as a punishable offense.
Silence is for fools. Communication is for leaders. Justice is for those brave enough to not stand another moment dealing with people that feel the solution to any problem is through cold indifference...
You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice, sometimes you can sit for your rights like Rosa Parks.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weak...
Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.
Bigotry lives not just in our words, but in our actions, thoughts, and institutions.
You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had.
Never be content to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next.
We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its cons...
The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that's the minute bigotry wins.
Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others.
Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.
The rhetoric of ‘law and order’ was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to generate and mobilize white opposition to the Civil Rights Moveme...
For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my 'race,' unless I was permitted to put 'human.' The form had to be completed under penalty of perjury,...
If you'd combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are.
We are captured, brother, surrounded by the majoritarian bandits of America. And this has happened here, in our only home, and the terrible truth is that we cannot will ourselves to an escape on our o...
And all Negroes at some period of their lives there is that yearning for a sense of group unity that is the yearning of men for a flag: for a unity that cannot be compromised, that cannot be bought; t...
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids -- an...
Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.
Racism is a disease of white people
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