civil-rights-movement

Racism is a disease of white people

Segregation in the American South was bankrolled by the wealthy eugenicist from the Northeast, Wickliffe Draper.

We are captured, brother, surrounded by the majoritarian bandits of America. And this has happened here, in our only home, and the terrible truth is that we cannot will ourselves to an escape on our own. Perhaps that was, is, the hope of the movement: to awaken the Dreamers, to rouse them to the facts of what their need to be white, to talk like they are white, to think that they are white, which is to think that they are beyond the design flaws of humanity, has done to the world.

Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others.

You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had.

Never be content to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next.

The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that's the minute bigotry wins.

Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.

Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.

It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.

Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn__ murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn__ murder lie; it doesn__ establish truth. Violence may even murder the dishonest man, but it doesn__ murder dishonesty. Violence may go to the point of murdering the hater, but it doesn__ murder hate. It may increase hate. It is always a descending spiral leading nowhere. This is the ultimate weakness of violence: It multiplies evil and violence in the universe. It doesn__ solve any problems.

We can__ answer King__ assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

We knew no one man had killed the prophet. Rather, the combined weight of racism and an absence of moral courage had crushed him. A constitution ignored, laws denied, these were the weapons. America pulled the trigger.

A freedom given up is not so easily regained.

The evolution of national unity and equal rights is all about what America represents as a nation today: a manifestation of the historical episodes of Jefferson and Henry as well as the Civil War, the Women__ Suffrage movement, and the Civil Rights struggles.

Silence is for fools. Communication is for leaders. Justice is for those brave enough to not stand another moment dealing with people that feel the solution to any problem is through cold indifference because of their lack of courage and insecurities.

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

Calling for an end to hate shouldn't be treated as a punishable offense.