Quotes About Injustice

If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

But what we have is not democracy; it is demonocracy! We are ruled by demons.

I know what it's like to be denied opportunity based on the nature of your skin.

There's no more denying it, or saying we live in a post-racist society. All you have to do is turn on the TV and see all these hate crimes.

What are we doing in the world that we are denying people the right to an open education? And we are denying it by making education something you have to pay for so drastically. How are people supposed to afford this?

The depressing reality is that campaigns like the Everyday Sexism Project would not need to exist were casual sexism not so startlingly commonplace.

I know that when we deprive communities of their voice, it can be dangerous.

There is so much corruption on so many levels of democracy that the common man is deprived of the basic rights.

If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.

I'm black. I grew up poor. I grew up in New York during the stop-and-frisk era. I've been stopped because I fit a description before.

'12 Years a Slave' was very powerful, very moving, and deserved all of the acclaim it did get.

My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.

Bill Clinton championed discriminatory laws against formerly incarcerated people that have kept millions of Americans locked in a cycle of poverty and desperation.

Despotism is a long crime.

The nature of racism is that it grinds down the soul of the man more finely than it does the soul of the woman. When you want to conquer a people or subject it, you destroy the male component.

Will you stand by it now, or will you let the Shylocks come and have their way? It is for you to determine.

The color of my skin should not determine whether I live or die.

In short, and let us be clear on it: race is not a card. It determines whom the dealer is, and who gets dealt.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

Women are so policed and devalued and dehumanized when it comes to the work they do.

I wanted people to begin dialogue about racism, about colorism. I wanted people to really become honest about our beliefs, about racism and how it exists in America today.

The very rich, very poor, and the very famous get the worst medical care. The very rich can buy it, the very poor can't get any, and the very famous can dictate it.

The colour of my skin determines what opportunities I have; the colour of my skin says there's only room for one or two of us to be accepted in a certain job; the colour of my skin has dictated everything I've done in my whole life.