Quotes About Injustice

I would argue that racism, for example, is a feature of machine learning - it's not a bug.

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.

The food we call soul food is slave food. We were forced to eat it.

Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.

Will I ever forgive the British media for what they've done to me? No.

Trayvon exposed a lot of things. I think something positive will come out of it. It's a blessing in disguise. And he will never be forgotten.

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.

Bathrooms have always been a big issue in my life. My parents fought for me to be able to enroll in elementary school as a girl, which I did. But I still would not be allowed to use the girls' room under any condition.

It's such a shame that you were put in a category of a dumb blonde, but that's what they did in the '50s. You fought the system, but you didn't win.

America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'

America was founded on the fissure between slave states and free states, so these huge fault lines are just built into the American project. How we repress them, express them, deal with them, talk around them, think through them, don't think through them, is fascinating to me.

When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don't forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.

One of the founding tenets of racism: a society that will never allow white people to think that because they are white, they won't succeed.

When was 'again?' Was it back when I was drinking from a separate water fountain? Was it when I couldn't eat in that restaurant over there?... 'Make America Great Again' - before I had equality?

I couldn't see why a black man wasn't allowed to drink out of the same water fountain or sit in the same bus or go to the same schools as a white guy.

I drank from colored water fountains and from the white water fountain just to see what it was like when I was a kid. What shocks me is that these kids today don't realize that this happened in many of our lifetimes.

My view is I should have been Miss Massillonian, and I wasn't. I think the reason I wasn't was because I was black. Frankly, I was told later I should have been. But they were afraid if they elected a black girl as Miss Massillonian, it would have been a scandal.

Separate but equal is a fraud.

Apartheid didn't impinge on music. It impinged on people's freedoms.

I grew up under a dictatorship. I knew what it meant for people to not have the ability to freely express themselves.

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.

At school, I was frequently subjected to racial abuse.

I'm the same as anyone else. If you are as good at a job as someone else, but they get three or four times more, you get a bit frustrated.