Mark Pocan Quotes

No state, as a matter of public policy, should turn back the clock on progress by, in effect, legalizing and relitigating the same types of discriminatory laws and debates that took America centuries to overcome.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.

Equality is a monster.

I believe the time has come for equal rights for everyone in this country, even for white people.

Liberty without equality is a name of noble sound and squalid result.

Among the progress of the human mind that is most important for human happiness, we must count the entire destruction of the prejudices that have established inequality between the sexes, fatal even to the sex it favors….This inequality has no other source but the abuse of power, and men have tried in vain to excuse it by sophisms.

…Anything less than full equality is not enough. If we compromise on that principle our soul is dead

The dream of diversity is like the dream of equality. Both are based on ideals we celebrate even as we undermine them daily.

Social injustice still needs to be denounced and fought. [In the post-communist era.]

We've come a long way, but there is still a lot of discrimination.

We'd better not speak against misogyny if, in the same breath, we're not also speaking against transphobia and homophobia and racism and classism and poverty. This is one fight. It always has been.

I want to live in a world that is less white supremacist, straight supremacist, male supremacist.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.