Quotes About Injustice

Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.

There was nothing to aspire to, no one to honor. Sojourner Truth wasn't a big enough role model for me. I couldn't go around abolishing slavery.

I loved the African-American culture, but racism was still a big problem and white America was exactly what I didn't love.

In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.

The biggest thing is we need to stop acting like racism don't exist.

Billions of people are being left behind by economic growth.

The issue of race is not an issue of choice. It's an issue of birth.

Writing in the voice of an American slave felt like I was biting off something very large.

Certainly, we are all on the shoulders of those who fought for our country. But the first peoples of this land justifiably might feel bitterness.

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

So often, blackness is seen in a negative light.

It's easier to blame the person with less power.

When things aren't going well for black people, they blame the government. When things aren't going well for white people, they can't blame the government because the government is supposed to be for them. So they blame black people.

No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.

I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board.

I think people just don't respect women's bodies in general, the bodies of women of color in general.

Nina Simone sacrificed so much to be as bold as she was about being black and about being female in an era where that could have cost her life.

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

I'm really bothered by questions of humanity, questions of war, questions of slavery.

It really bothers me when people say we live in a postracial America.

When my mother told me they have to sell me, I couldn't breathe; I couldn't speak.

My only crime is breathing and existing.

Rioting definitely brings attention to the situation at hand.