Best Racial Justice Quotes

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

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost all of the time.

We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a world that was based on egalitarianism, sharing, racial justice.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.

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

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

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.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

Whatever community organization, whether it’s a women’s organization, or fighting for racial justice … you will get satisfaction out of doing something to give back to the community that you never get in any other way.

Racial justice is key to a compassionate, inclusive, dynamic society.

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

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

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’.

When you say I want to talk about racial justice, that`s not the same as saying I want to do something about racial justice.

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

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.

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.

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.

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.

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

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.

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.

No future without forgiveness.

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.

Violence will only increase the cycle of violence.

I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people, and I should stick to the issue of racial justice.

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.

I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice. What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable. The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Prejudices are the props of civilization.