Human rights Quote by Opal Tometi Download Open image “My parents being from Nigeria deeply informs all my social justice and human rights work.” — Opal Tometi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human rights Justice Parenting Parents Social justice Work
“In all, Nigeria belongs to us all and we have a personal responsibility to see that it succeeds” — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
My parents were among the first families from their area to leave Nigeria and come to America, the land of the free. — Nnamdi Asomugha Copy Share Image
My parents always asked me what I thought, listened to my opinions, articulated their diagnoses of our challenges at home and abroad, and shared… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
Both my parents are Nigerian, but my mother worked internationally so when she travelled so did the kids. — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
My father is Nigerian; my mother is from Texas and African-American. My father was the first in his family to go to university. He flew from Nigeria to Los Angeles in the '70s to go to UCLA, where he met my mother. They broke up before I was born, and he returned to Nigeria. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share
My parents really instilled in me the importance of helping people. That involves helping and serving people in the community, but also empathy. — Trevor Lawrence Copy Share Image
There are always groups on campus that are doing amazing things. I know when I was in college, I was a student at the… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Let's demonstrate, illustrate, the ways in which our communities are being undermined time and time again, and make sure that the broader public and… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Being in the immigrant rights space, I've heard a lot of transactional talk with questions like, 'When will black people show up for immigrants?' — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Our communities are reeling from poverty, from unemployment, from discrimination of all sorts and different interactions that they're having with the law enforcement, and… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Antiblack racism is not only happening in the United States. It's actually happening all across the globe. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
I'm really looking for an agenda that looks at safety for our communities beyond policing. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
I just look back at my time in college and think about how much my community activism and my work in neighborhoods really informed… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Trump's racism has clearly driven his policy decisions during his first year in office - from his Muslim ban and his despicable treatment of… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
I have two younger brothers, and I know my parents have spoken to them about driving and interacting with police. They didn't have those… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Lean into your curiosity about any issue, and there will likely be people to share a little bit more of their knowledge and insight… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Far from ending, systemic racism reinvents itself to conform to what is publically acceptable, leaving the quality of black life diminished and more permanently… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
I found out about Sister Song through Poppy Liu, who's on the show 'Hacks.' Reproductive rights are human rights, and I wanted to shine… — Ayo Edebiri Copy Share Image
Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“. The understanding that what is good supports basic human rights and anything that threatens it is bad. We do not need a supernatural… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
“Whatever happened in those more than one hundred years, from the time my great-great-great grandfather studied law to the time when my own father… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it. — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt. — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
“Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
America should be leading the world in green and clean solutions, and human rights. We shouldn't be leading the world in wars and incarceration… — Van Jones Copy Share Image