Diane Guerrero Quotes

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

We must strip away slogans such as “states’ rights.” We must attach the “wrongs” of society.

You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.

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

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Equality is a monster.

Is Justice to be established by subjecting half of mankind to the will of the other half? Justice, Sir, is blind to colors, and weighs in equal scales the rights of all men whether white or black…. An opportunity is now presented, if not to diminish, at least to prevent the growth of a sin that sits heavy on the soul of every one of us.

I am an enemy of racism

… all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

The Negro fought and bled and died in every war the white man waged, and he still won't give you justice. You nursed his baby and cleaned behind his wife, and he still won't give you freedom; you turned the other cheek while he lynched you and raped your women, but he still won't give you equality.

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.

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

Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.

My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

Segregation has no place in the education system.

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

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

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.