Quotes about "Social Justice & Equality"

The big, radical thing that I'm trying to do is to portray Latinas as complex human beings. ”

Pleasures. I had to cut them back so I can write. And it's worked! It so has. But I am the most boring human on the planet. ”

I have a divinely-ordained calling in my life to create a larger impact on human society. ”

Come on, just because I'm an entertainer it doesn't mean I don't have any dignity! ”

Germany has spent the decades since World War II in national penance for Nazi crimes. America spent the decades after the Civil War transforming Confederate crimes into virtues. It is illegal to fly the Nazi flag in Germany. The Confederate flag is enmeshed in the state flag of Mississippi. ”

The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people. ”

Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the 1990s, when we had some of the most disgusting legislation in terms of our criminal justice, really, in this country's history. ”

The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited. ”

We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism. But the racism doesn't actually come from the criminal justice system. ”

Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church. ”