Angela Glover Blackwell Quotes

We are fighting for an affordable, diverse community where all of us can thrive.

What do we do to just rebuild and focus on creating a big and inclusive tent, where we're focusing on making sure every child gets that fair shot, that every woman gets to compete on a level playing field, that we are true to the core values of our country, and we're making sure that we honor those values?

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

When we empower our communities, we are all better off.

We seek not just freedom, but opportunity … not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and as a result.

We not only need community development but we need equitable development.

We [Chicago] are known as the city that works. You gotta make sure it works for everybody and not just a few.

We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We've got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.

In the creative community, there's no excuse for not making a more equitable environment.

With abolition, it's necessary to destroy systems of oppression. But it's equally necessary to put at the forefront our conversations about creation. When we fight for justice, what exactly do we want for our communities?

As citizens, I'm asking you not to leave any child behind. I'm asking you not to be color blind, but to be color brave, so that every child knows that their future matters and their dreams are possible.

We must make both our distributional and democratic systems work for our communities.

We are accountable to each other; having an equitable Minnesota benefits everyone, not just the disenfranchised.

I really am focused on making sure we're doing everything we can so every single person in our country... has the right to thrive... and live in a just and equitable society.

I have spent my career fighting to make Oregon a place where everyone can thrive.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized.

I care about education for everyone, not just the elite.

Our workforce and our entire economy are strongest when we embrace diversity to its fullest, and that means opening doors of opportunity to everyone and recognizing that the American Dream excludes no one.

Especially in the realm of bringing an opportunity to do something creative to people, as I said, who wouldn't ordinarily have that opportunity. I think that's very important.

The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.

As a philanthropist, I try to help people take ownership. Everything I've done is rooted in the notion that every human being is born equally capable. What people lack is equal opportunity.

… a social right

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.

Equal opportunity does not come from tolerance; it comes from acceptance.