“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”— Elie Wiesel, nobelprize.org
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”— Desmond Tutu, amazon.com
“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”— Howard Zinn, amazon.com
“He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filt…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“The world is made wrong; kings should go to school to their own laws, at times, and so learn mercy.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”— Desmond Tutu, tutufoundation-usa.org
“The losers under this injustice system are the young people I know and love.”— Mariame Kaba, thenewinquiry.com
“How much time will I spend finding the correct words to say that the color of a person’s skin is not justification for ending their life? And how much time will elapse until those words mean anything to the people who actually kill us?”— Kara Brown, jezebel.com
“Being a black parent, especially of a black boy, comes with the added onus of having to protect your child from a country that is out to get him—a country that kills someone that looks like him every 28 hours, a country that will likely imprison him by his mid-thirties if he doesn't get his high sch…”— Jazmine Hughes, gawker.com
“To be black in America is to exist in haunting, mundane proximity to death at all moments.”— Hannah Giorgis, buzzfeed.com
“I don’t know where we go from here because those of us who recognize the injustice are not the problem. Law enforcement, militarized and indifferent to black lives, is the problem.”— Roxane Gay, nytimes.com
“The concept of reverse racism is flawed, if not absolutely ridiculous. Most, if not all of the negative responses from people of color toward white people, are reactions to the hatred, violence, cruelty and brutality that they were shown by white people for centuries. Much of the foundation of the m…”— Lauryn Hill, sohh.com
“If I go outside and try to hail a cab and he passes me for the white woman standing right there, that racism is still alive and kicking. And we have to change that. And I'm not blaming the white lady, she needed a cab too.”— Queen Latifah, billboard.com
“We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil -- black gold! -- ghettoizin…”— Jesse Williams, billboard.com
“If you have a critique for our resistance then you’d better have an established record, a critique of our oppression.”— Jesse Williams, billboard.com
“Now, what we’ve been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people every day. So what’s going to happen is we’re going to have equal rights and justice in our own country or we will restructure their function and ours.”— Jesse Williams, billboard.com
“You're so outraged and surprised this shitty thing happened to you that there's a piece of you that isn't yet convinced it did. You're looking for the explanation, the loophole, the bright twist in the dark tale that reverses its course. Anyone would be. It's the reason I've had to narrate my own st…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Every day these messages shaped the images that I and other nonwhite children had of ourselves. I didn’t know how, but I knew that I was going to help my people. Somehow, I was going to make a difference in the world. The more injustice that I saw, the stronger my feelings grew. It made me feel that…”— Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, amazon.com