Racial Injustice Quotes

I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier…

— Harrison Ford

“We can't simply point out racial injustices, but for the sake of the gospel work to heal them.”

— Jerry Kinard

The appalling racial injustice inherent in the Trayvon Martin tragedy reminds us that there is still much to do.

— Martin Luther King III

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.

— W Clement Stone

There's so much that I learned about systemic racism, the history of racial injustice.

— Rick Carlisle

My father is from Mississippi, and I heard stories of racial injustice my whole life.

— Omar Benson Miller

Sometimes our tunnel vision is limited to what we see outside our window. Until racial injustice becomes personal then I don't think…

— Shane Claiborne

Kneeling for the anthem does nothing to advance solutions to racial injustice, police brutality, or any other social plight. It is a…

— Matt Gaetz

Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never…

— Van Jones

“Actually, everyone, in one way or the other is being insulted by ungodliness and injustice, be it racial injustice, inequality, economic injustice,…

— Sunday Adelaja

I ran for office because I believe personally that the cycle of poverty is systemic, is rooted in racial injustice, and is…

— Jamaal Bowman

What the Black lives matter movement is doing is they are making it personal. They are making it hash tagged, exposing the…

— Shane Claiborne

#BlackLivesMatter has raised the bar in our national dialog: Addressing economic inequality is necessary but not sufficient. It is also necessary to…

— Danny K. Davis

If I wrote in Michael Harrington's time, roughly 50 years later when he published 'The Other America', I'd still be writing about…

— Matthew Desmond

Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We all have this misunderstanding about heartbreak, which is we think we should avoid it. But what I think is that heartache…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In trying to address the systemic problem of racial injustice, we would do well to look at abolitionism, because here is a…

— Manisha Sinha

The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials,…

— Thomas Merton

“Comey had turned away from his upbringing and embraced various kinds of evangelism. He wrote his thesis on how the evangelist teacher…

— Luke Harding

“Issues related to diversity such as racial injustice are everyone’s problem, and thus everyone ought to be part of the solution.”

— Karen A Longman

Wearing that uniform for Team U.S.A., we represent everyone in America and yet, under that umbrella, we are also representing people that…

— Breanna Stewart

I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery…

— Howard Dean

Civic poetry is public poetry. It is political poetry. It is about the hard stuff of life: money, crime, gender, corporate excess,…

— Alissa Quart

Once upon a time, Bill Clinton was widely perceived as an ally and advocate for the needs of black people. However, it…

— Patrisse Cullors

My activism did not spring from being black...The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge…

— Bayard Rustin