Social Justice Quotes

If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.

As children growing up here in the East Bay, we were raised by a community with a deep belief in the promise of our country - and, a deep understanding of the parts of that promise that still remain unfulfilled.

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?