Racial Justice Quotes - Page 2

• This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Luxury, Drug, I Have A Dream Speech

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• No future without forgiveness.

  Desmond Tutu

  Justice

  Desmond Tutu (2012). “No Future Without Forgiveness”, Random House

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  America, Justice

  7 Copy quote

• Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Names, Justice, Democracy

  104 Copy quote

• My hope is that feminist, racial justice, reproductive rights and LGBT movements build a coalition that centers on the lives of women who lead intersectional lives and too often fall in between the cracks of these narrow mission statements.

  Janet Mock

  Fall, Rights, Justice

  41 Copy quote

• I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.

  Coretta Scott King

  Dream, Brother, Kings

  Reuters, March 31, 1998.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.

  Michelle Alexander

  Issues, Justice, Mass Incarceration

  26 Copy quote

• When you say you want to talk about racial justice, that`s not the same as I want to do something about racial justice. Saying I want to hold police accountable is doing something. Saying that I want to take money out of politics, big money, is doing something.

  Killer Mike

  Justice, Police, Want

  Source: www.msnbc.com

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.

  Janet Mock

  Fall, Color, Justice

  "A Note on Visibility in the Wake of 6 Trans Women’s Murders in 2015". janetmock.com. February 16, 2015.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think there is a commitment on the part of the White House to racial justice in this country, and no ambiguity.

  Richard Lugar

  Country, Commitment, Thinking

  "GOP looks to Frist to repair Lott damage". www.cnn.com. December 22, 2002.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

  Mark Pryor

  Courage, Kings, Compassion

  7 Copy quote

• Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

  Albert Camus

  Motivational, Change, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the very first debate I was asked am I a moderate or a progressive and I said I'm a progressive who likes to get things done. Cherry picking a quote here or there doesn't change my record of having fought for racial justice, having fought for kids rights, having fought the kind of inequities that fueled my interest in service in the first place going back to my days in the Children's Defense Fund.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Kids, Rights

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was raised a right-wing Republican and was about eighteen when I had to admit to myself that in regards to the great domestic crucible of the day, civil rights and racial justice, conservatives were on the wrong side historically and morally, and that it took too much intellectual and psychological jujitsu to pretend otherwise. I didn't want to pretend anymore; I wanted to be on the right side.

  Steve Erickson

  Wings, Rights, Justice

  Source: therumpus.net

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• We're more concerned about climate or economic equality or racial justice or anything else that is good for people and the planet, we simply must also spend some time wresting back our money-marinated democracy. This will require getting money out of politics and then getting people back in.

  Annie Leonard

  People, Justice, Democracy

  4 Copy quote

• I'm not interested in embarrassing the United States. We as a nation need to foster a broader understanding of national security, and when in the name of national security the US government both overtly and covertly aligns itself with the apartheid state and against heroic freedom fighters for racial justice ... Not only in 1962 but also keeping in mind that Mandela was on the US terror watch list until 2008, that kind of myopic understanding of national security has devastating consequences.

  Ryan Shapiro

  Government, Names, Justice

  Source: news.vice.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that Eleanor Roosevelt really learned about the limits of power and influence from Arthurdale. She could not make some things happen. And she particularly learned that she could not, just because she was nominally in charge, she could not change people's hearts and minds; that a very long process of education would result before race was on the national agenda. And it really did move her into the racial justice arena with both feet. She came out fighting.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Moving, Heart, Fighting

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ajamu Baraka is a human rights advocate and an international human rights advocate, who's been defending racial justice, economic justice, worker justice, indigenous justice, and justice for black and brown people all over the world, and in the United States has been helping to lead the charge against the death penalty here, and is an extremely eloquent and empowering person. And one of the great things about running with him is that we speak to all of America.

  Jill Stein

  Running, Rights, America

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am honored to have Ajamu Baraka as a running mate. I think he brings enormous credibility in the disenfranchised communities, not just African American but Latino, Asian American and Native American. He is a recognized advocate for racial justice, economic justice and human rights, and I think this conversation is only just begun. It is very important.

  Jill Stein

  Running, Native American, Thinking

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

  Voltaire

  Justice, Prejudice, Opinion

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.120, Penguin

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• I put everything I had into it - all my feelings and everything I'd learned in 46 years of living, about family life and fathers and children. And my feelings about racial justice and inequality and opportunity.

  Gregory Peck

  Children, Father, Opportunity

  On his role as Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird". "Oscar-Winner Gregory Peck Dies at Age 87", usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 12, 2003.

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would like to believe that the discovery of even a single fossil bacteria on Mars would teach us what we ought to know all along, and that is what binds us here on earth - all the diverse peoples here - is really much more profound than what seems to separate us.

  Richard E. Berendzen

  Believe, Discovery, Profound

  46 Copy quote

• Violence will only increase the cycle of violence.

  Dalai Lama

  Justice, Violence, Increase

  8 Copy quote

• Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

  Plato

  Country, Men, Practice

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.162, Cosimo, Inc.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

  William Blake

  Trust, Courage, Truth

  60 Copy quote