Eric Reid Quotes

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

The times when black women have been successful in confronting and overcoming the structural and institutional sexism and racism that persists in our society have been when we are thoughtful and strategic about speaking up. It's when we've done what it takes to introduce and implement our ideas and our plans to make things better.

Injustice has exhausted people but also pushed them to organize and fight back in very sophisticated ways.

Regardless of how much media coverage will be received, talking and raising awareness about social injustice isn't enough.

I want to thank the fans across the country who have supported me in this effort to fight for equality and justice. I want to thank those that have dedicated their lives to this fight, as I know that it is not easy. And I want to challenge those who stay silent to be courageous and use your platforms to become part of the solution. God Bless.

I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.

The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that's what I'm going to use.

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

We have to realize we are building a movement.

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

I'm an Afro-realist. I take what comes, and I do my best to affect what is unacceptable in society.

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.

The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.