Racial Justice Quotes - Page 3

• My great crime wasn't refusing to represent an innocent man; my great crime was imagining that there was some path to racial justice that did not include those we view as 'guilty'.

  Michelle Alexander

  Men, Innocent Man, Views

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• Prejudices are the props of civilization.

  Andre Gide

  Civilization, Justice, Prejudice

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.10, Vintage

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• To Americans Boris Vian has long been one of the hidden glories of French literature. In I Spit on Your Graves, he wrote an utterly untypical work, a blast from his Id that may well have killed him. Even now, with misogyny disguised as racial justice, its venom remains potent and disturbing, in equal parts appalling and riveting. It is a singular book, not for the squeamish, and not to be passed by.

  Jim Krusoe

  Book, Long, Justice

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• Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Ignorance, Prejudice, Stubborn

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• Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of the workers, the poor, speaking out on behalf of racial justice. However when it came to the issue of gender they were as sexist as their conservative cohorts.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, Issues, Justice

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.67, Routledge

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