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1. “There have always been Southern whites who, at great risk, pioneered in the movement for racial justice. I was lucky to know some of them: Myles Horton, founder of the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee; Carl and Anne Braden, editors of the Southern Courier in Louisville, Kentucky; Pat Watters and Margaret Long, journalists with the Atlanta Constitution; reporters Fred Powledge and Jack Nelson.”
Howard Zinn
Justice, Activism, Racial Equality, Civil Rights, Social Change
3. “Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.” Noam Chomsky Civil Rights Movement, Black Churches, Social Justice, Activism, Racial Equality
4. “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.” Langston Hughes Racial Equality, Freedom, Social Justice, Civil Rights, Metaphor
9. “For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.” John F. Kennedy American Indians, Cultural understanding, Native rights, National history, Social issues, Racial equality
13. “I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.” Muhammad Ali Boxing Legacy, White Icons, Cultural Perception, Racial Equality, Ali's Impact
14. “The dead man mattered, the new life mattered; blackness and whiteness did not matter; to believe that they did was to acquiesce in one’s own destruction. Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law.” James Baldwin Racism, Hatred, Personal destruction, Life and death, Racial equality, Self-destruction
Racial Equality Quotes by Famous Authors
1. “There have always been Southern whites who, at great risk, pioneered in the movement for racial justice. I was lucky to know some of them: Myles Horton, founder of the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee; Carl and Anne Braden, editors of the Southern Courier in Louisville, Kentucky; Pat Watters and Margaret Long, journalists with the Atlanta Constitution; reporters Fred Powledge and Jack Nelson.”
Howard Zinn Justice, Activism, Racial Equality, Civil Rights, Social Change
3. “Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.”
Noam Chomsky Civil Rights Movement, Black Churches, Social Justice, Activism, Racial Equality
4. “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.”
Langston Hughes Racial Equality, Freedom, Social Justice, Civil Rights, Metaphor
9. “For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.”
John F. Kennedy American Indians, Cultural understanding, Native rights, National history, Social issues, Racial equality
13. “I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.”
Muhammad Ali Boxing Legacy, White Icons, Cultural Perception, Racial Equality, Ali's Impact
14. “The dead man mattered, the new life mattered; blackness and whiteness did not matter; to believe that they did was to acquiesce in one’s own destruction. Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law.”
James Baldwin Racism, Hatred, Personal destruction, Life and death, Racial equality, Self-destruction
