Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.

So here comes this black guy from the Bay Area talking about peace, feminism, challenging racism, challenging the priorities of the country, and talking about preserving the fragile nature of our ecological system. People looked at me as if I was a freak.

I have different privileges because I am a man, and I have to acknowledge that and realize that another person of color who is also a woman is having a different experience than I am.

Every white liberal straight man needs to take action and work at unifying all peoples of our sides and stop making women and people of color and the LGBT community fight it out themselves and just pat them on the back. We have to take active roles in supporting them, defending them, and hiring them.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

Right is of no sex – Truth is of no color.

The only way you get to the goal of color blindness is to be color conscious along the way.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races.

The whole issue of race and discrimination is a moral issue.

I'm someone very interested in diversity, equity, social justice, and getting rid of white supremacy.

It's not enough to just not be racist. You've got to be anti-racist. You've got to hold everybody accountable.

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.

The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in racial equality but are quietly oblivious to injustice around them.

We cannot reform institutional racism or systemic policies if we are not actively engaged. It's not enough to simply complain about injustice; the only way to prevent future injustice is to create the society we would like to see, one where we are all equal under the law.

Because women of color were more likely to be in the paid labor force, they were more likely to recognize discrimination, so they were always leading the women's movement.

I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

In the dispensation of justice, no distinction is to be admitted, whether between the man of wealth or the poor man, the master or the slave, the European or the Hottentot.

For a long time in the United States, in practice if not in principle, only white, male, Protestants were born free and equal.

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