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#1

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara

tags: justice, social-justice

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#2

“The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.”
― Marcus Garvey

tags: activism, belief, integrity, social-justice

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#3

“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: happiness, joy, purpose-of-life, social-justice

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#4

“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”
― Dorothy Day

tags: problems, social-justice, society

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#5

“When we identify where our privilege intersects with somebody else's oppression, we'll find our opportunities to make real change.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

tags: oppression, privilege, privileges, social-justice, social-justice-power

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#6

“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.”
― Georg Lichtenberg

tags: change, social-justice

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#7

“Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.”
― Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right

tags: communism, equality, marxism, social-justice, socialism

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#8

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world

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#9

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

tags: activism

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#10

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
― Malcolm X

tags: activism, truth

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#11

“We don’t think you fight fire with fire best ; we think you fight fire with water best. We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism. We’re stood up and said we’re not going to fight reactionary pigs and reactionary state’s attorneys like this and reactionary state’s attorneys like Hanrahan with any other reactions on our part. We’re going to fight their reactions with all of us people getting together and having an international proletarian revolution.”
― Fred Hampton

tags: anti-capitalism, anti-racism, black-panther-party, black-panthers, capitalism, fred-hampton, racism, socialism, solidarity

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#12

“If you believe in a cause, be willing to stand up for that cause with a million people or by yourself.”
― Otis S. Johnson, FROM "N" WORD TO MR. MAYOR

tags: advocacy, african-americans, anti-racism, authors-from-savannah-georgia, black-lives-matter, black-men, civil-rights-movement, commitment, correcting-social-injustice, racism-in-america

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#13

“We all have a sphere of influence. Each of us needs to find our own sources of courage so that we can begin to speak. There are many problems to address, and we cannot avoid them indefinitely. We cannot continue to be silent. We must begin to speak, knowing that words alone are insufficient. But I have seen that meaningful dialogue can lead to effective action. Change is possible.”
― Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

tags: allyship, anti-racism, black-lives-matter, blm, race-and-racism-in-america, speaking-out

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#14

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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#15

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”
― Toni Morrison

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#16

“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: labels

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#17

“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
― Toni Morrison

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#18

“You are your best thing”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

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#19

“Difficult to “move on” from any site of suffering if that suffering goes unacknowledged and undescribed.”
― Toni Morrison, Recitatif

tags: apology, reconciliation, suffering

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#20

“What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

tags: black-lives-matter, racism

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#21

“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: bigotry, politics, racism

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#22

“For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: change, civil-rights, discrimination, equality, fear, homophobia, political, prejudice, racism

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#23

“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

tags: african-americans, being-yourself, blacks, growing-up, race-relations, racism, self

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#24

“Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

tags: race, racism, racism-in-america, white-privilege

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#25

“White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed as a problem first and foremost.”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

tags: discrimination, privilege, racism, white-privilege

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#26

“It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.”
― James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

tags: african-americans, blacks, passing-for-white, race, race-and-racism-in-america, race-relations, racism

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#27

“Physical laziness is bad but intellectual laziness is intolerable.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

tags: intellectual-life, laziness, laziness-quotes, quotable-quote, wilful-ignorance

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#28

“The question is really a kind of apathy and ignorance, which is the price we pay for segregation. That’s what segregation means. You don’t know what’s happening on the other side of the wall, because you don’t want to know.”
― James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro

tags: apathy, civil-rights, ignorance, race-relations, segragation, wilful-ignorance

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#29

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity

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#30

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

tags: civil-rights

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