“The sad irony of all this is that the E.U. was built to prevent the very kind of nationalist fervor its economic mismanagement and political heavy-handedness are provoking now. The dustbin of history exists for a reason. And yet, and yet. It's easy for a generation that has only known peace and rela…”— Matt O'Brien, washingtonpost.com
“Right-wing populists like Pat Buchanan in the United States, Jean-Marie Le Pen in France and Jörg Haider in Austria had scored surprising near-victories, if not actual ones, in the late 1990s and early 2000s by focusing the working class's incipient ire on a "foreign" enemy besides outsourcing: immi…”— Matt O'Brien, washingtonpost.com
“Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.”— Aberjhani, amazon.com
“A police officer in America faces a 1 in 1000 chance of ever facing jail time for killing another human being. #FreddieGray”— Samuel Sinyangwe, twitter.com
“If you can separate the KKK and Westboro from Christianity then you should be able to separate ISIS from Islam.”— Anonymous, bushralj.tumblr.com
“Turning my back on Malcolm was one of the mistakes that I regret most in my life. I wish I’d been able to tell Malcolm I was sorry, that he was right about so many things. But he was killed before I got the chance. He was a visionary ahead of us all…. I might never have become a Muslim if it hadn’t…”— Muhammad Ali, balee-dat.tumblr.com
“Turning my back on Malcolm was one of the mistakes that I regret most in my life. I wish I’d been able to tell Malcolm I was sorry, that he was right about so many things. But he was killed before I got the chance. He was a visionary ahead of us all…. I might never have become a Muslim if it hadn’t…”— Muhammad Ali, balee-dat.tumblr.com
“Turning my back on Malcolm was one of the mistakes that I regret most in my life. I wish I’d been able to tell Malcolm I was sorry, that he was right about so many things. But he was killed before I got the chance. He was a visionary ahead of us all…. I might never have become a Muslim if it hadn’t…”— Muhammad Ali, balee-dat.tumblr.com
“Turning my back on Malcolm was one of the mistakes that I regret most in my life. I wish I’d been able to tell Malcolm I was sorry, that he was right about so many things. But he was killed before I got the chance. He was a visionary ahead of us all…. I might never have become a Muslim if it hadn’t…”— Muhammad Ali, balee-dat.tumblr.com
“When Nelson Mandela was imprisoned on Robben Island, he said that Muhammad Ali gave him hope that the walls would some day come tumbling down.”— Dave Zirin, thenation.com
“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 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? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor…”— Muhammad Ali, zenmarxist.tumblr.com
“[When a restaurant refused to serve him at his local hometown because of skin color.] You all know me. I was born in General Hospital, only a block away. I was raised here. I went to Central High. And now I’ve brought back an Olympic Gold Medal for all the people of Louisville. I fought for the glor…”— Muhammad Ali, Richard Durham, amazon.com
“Mainstream feminism marginalizes women of colour. It fails to recognize that gender inequality and racial inequality are intersectional. And race isn’t the only thing that white feminism is missing. Feminism should be about all women, not just one type of woman. How can we talk about sexism without…”— Melisa Ergin, thoughtcatalog.com