Privilege doesn't just insulate people from the consequences of their prejudice, it cuts them off from their humanity.
I'm hurting because the color of my skin makes me perfect for their target practice.
every time this happensI see my fathermy brothermy would be sonI see myselfstop killing us
Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.
Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.
Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.
Love is a better way.
Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly...
Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.
You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other.
But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our constitution is color-blind, and neither k...
I am groping about through this American forest of prejudice and proscription, determined to find some form of civilization where all men will be accepted for what they are worth.
Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your su...
Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live.
Sixty millions of whites are in no danger from the presence here of eight millions of blacks. The destinies of the two races, in this country, are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of bo...
Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.
Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon.
People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice
Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people....
[T]he full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation of women on equal terms with men in all fi
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