Quotes About Equality

There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.

I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.

If you're a black woman at an Ivy League school, there is no free speech for me because they're already pissed that I'm there.

I guess what really made me a Dodgers fan from the beginning was that the team had Jackie Robinson, the first 'Negro' in the major leagues.

It's not every day you get to be in a movie about Jackie Robinson, so you want to do it as right as you can.

For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything. Baseball was meant for the lily-white.

Jackie Robinson is a true legend.

It was a breaking period for black people coming into baseball, and how many followed depended on Jackie's conduct. But that's not the case now. What and how I do doesn't mean nearly as much as what and how Jackie did.

I have nothing but all the respect in the world for Jackie Robinson.

The path was not easier for Jackie Robinson simply because he embraced God.

Where are Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton? They don't speak for Black America, and they don't speak for me.

Bernie Sanders is our Jesse Jackson only more so.

You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution.

I'd been going to jail for like, 10 years before the Stonewall.

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

Look, everyone wants justice to be served. Everyone wants justice to be blind. We want people to make it home or to jail for that matter safely.

For me, it just doesn't make sense that somebody could be out the same day or not have to serve a day in jail because they have better resources.

You see, you can't put joblessness in a jail cell.

I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to college. Why? Because rich people's kids go to college. And if that's good enough for them, it's good enough for my kids. Because you know what? College graduates don't tend to go to jail as frequently as nongraduates.

For our kids to go to school, they must be alive, and for adults to work, they must not be in jail.

It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.

We have to give people dreams; we have to give people hope. In terms of government, in terms of society, that's our goal. You can't have a group of people that don't dream, that see themselves as dead or in jail.

If you asked me why I went to jail, the easiest explanation would be to say, 'Because I'm black.'

I am in jail for defending human rights, not independence.