Activism Quote by Nadine Gordimer Download Open image ““I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.”” — Nadine Gordimer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Activism Apartheid Innocence Racism South africa
“Racists confessing to their crimes is not in their self-interest.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“I am innocent! But only because the opportunity to partake in an activity that would render me guilty has not presented itself.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Being falsely accused of racism is, at best, unpleasant and at worst, can destroy a career. — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
“I still believe in good and bad, in black and white, in right and wrong. I believe the guilty should be punished. I believe… — William Bernhardt Copy Share Image
“It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Injustice coupled with racism is a highly explosive mixture, in which the world, threatens to suffocate.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
“Justice is mean't for everyone no matter the race no matter the background it should be equal for everyone.” — Mike "The Sweet One" Desert Copy Share Image
“...we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States... If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“you like to have some cup of tea?-July bent at the doorway and began that day for them as his kind has always done… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of… — Seyla Benhabib Copy Share Image
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“It takes a female to have a baby, It takes a woman to raise a child, It takes a mother to raise them correctly,… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Paul Revere earned his living as a silversmith. But what do we remember him for? His volunteer work. All activism is volunteering in that… — Susan J. Ellis Copy Share Image
Being in service and being involved in something that is greater than you is what makes a person complete and whole. The very first… — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
“The times do not call for grassroots political activism, as if the next election might be enough to reverse a massive cultural earthquake. They… — Paul D. Miller Copy Share Image
He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world on his… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
“Until you find a cause you can die for, you are not worthy to live.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
Ya'll know what you need to do? Get together, make a We Are The World record. — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image