Quotes About Injustice

In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.

Me is what them call illegitimate, that mean say me is a criminal, bomba rassclaat! That's why me go write a song called 'Illegitimate Children.' It took me years to find out I was one.

When 'Sports Illustrated' came out with their 50 most fashionable people in sport, that fact that I wasn't on that list is a travesty.

Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

When there's an imbalance in terms of what people get to hear, then that's negative. Then blues, jazz, it will die.

There's still an immense amount of discrimination that happens against trans people.

Throughout history, groups of Americans have attacked immigrants who fled danger and destruction at home and arrived in America hoping for the opportunities those of us born here are lucky enough to enjoy.

What is more immoral than war?

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.

For me, it was impressive how Iniesta finished his career without the Ballon d'Or. With everything he won, it is difficult for me to understand!

From my family alone, Qaddafi had imprisoned five men.

We have a circle of corruption and impunity that is too strong.

I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.

Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control.

Racism holds no place in our game and it holds no place in society. But unfortunately there are going to be incidents.

It takes such little imagination to include people of colour in the stories you tell and so much more work to exclude folks.

I didn't think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interned without a hearing.

The reason why 'Black Lives Matter' is a chant is because a lot of people feel, myself included, that sometimes they don't matter.

I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.

It's incredibly hard out there for women of color.

In some instances, a gender imbalance is indeed a manifestation of sexism. In others, it is not.

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.