Oscar Munoz Quotes

Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.

Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

Perhaps life had a meaning that transcended race and colour. If it had, I could not find it in South Africa.

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

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

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

We need to stop separating ourselves by how dark or how light we are.

The rights of all of us are diminished when the rights of any one of us are threatened.

No people will be truly free until all are free.

The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War II for no really good reason by our most liberal President. Browns have been abused as the new slave labor on farms. The blacks, who did not come here willingly, are now, more than a century after emancipation by Lincoln, still suffering a host of slavelike inequalities.

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." Now we practically read it, "all men are created equal except Negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty—to Russia for instance where despotism can be taken pure and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

Yet she's only as rich as the poorest of the poor Only as free as a padlocked prison door Only as strong as our love for this land Only as tall as we stand!

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

These false barriers that we've erected of space and race, all these illusions that we've allowed to infect us like toxins, we've got to rid ourselves of that. We are a better nation when we are ultimately united in a common purpose and a common cause.

Our differences - in race, sexual preference, economic - have always been used as distractions to keep us divided. We get so wrapped up in our own stories that we can't hear each other.

MLK, Jr. taught me how to say no to segregation, and I can hear him saying now... when you straighten up your back, no man can ride you. He said stand up straight and say no to racial discrimination.

'Those people' is a bad word.