civil-rights

Only until all human beings begin to recognize themselves as human beings will prejudice be gone forever. People ask me what race I am, but there is no such thing as race. I just answer: "I__ a member of the human race.

Silence is for fools. Communication is for leaders. Justice is for those brave enough to not stand another moment dealing with people that feel the solution to any problem is through cold indifference because of their lack of courage and insecurities.

Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.

Right isn't always legal.

Love is a better way.

It's terrifying to think you could become the next statistic.

Calling for an end to hate shouldn't be treated as a punishable offense.

If you'd combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are.

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

Our situation is intolerable, but what's worseis to sit here and do nothing.

the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us...