Jonathan Kozol Quotes

Our party has always been the voice of the powerless and the voiceless.

I'm always wanting and willing to be a voice for my people, a voice for the injustice.

I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.

If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.

My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.

I consider myself a social justice person.

I believe Native Americans, women, and all of us deserve representation, and that we all need to fight with everything we have to make it so.

I want to speak for people who can't speak; they're afraid to speak.

I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people.

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

I think it is important that you have people from all different vanguards, from all different walks of society and different viewpoints to be focused on the struggle for equality and democracy. We need as many champions for the cause and as many events as possible to help keep this in focus.

I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it right.

There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don't feel grateful to them for their work.

At the end of the day, what I have is the power to give a louder voice to people who have issues, questions and problems.

We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.

Go out and speak for the inarticulate and submerged.

I want to be the voice and the vision for the poor and the powerless.

We must stand up and do everything we can for the people who do not have a voice.

The Time's Up campaign is for everyone, in all capacities, contributions big and small.

This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because I'm seeing things happen to people that don't have a voice: people that don't have a platform to talk and have their voices heard and affect change. So I'm in the position where I can do that, and I'm going to do that for people that can't.

We need someone who is going to stand up, speak up, and speak out for the people who need help, for the people who have been discriminated against.

The foundation of the house of civil rights is in the voices of all the great civil rights leaders and the soul of every person who heard them. It's in the hands of every person who folded a leaflet for change, and it's in the courage of every person who changed.

LGBT people are some of the bravest and most potent change agents and leaders I have encountered, and the most forceful defenders of the vulnerable and voiceless, because they know what it's like to be there.

I represent opportunities for other women and other people of color, and I'm trying to start my own kind of movement.

We, as communities that are marginalized, need to open up our minds and realize that we should be asking and advocating for more of everyone. Let's get more gay black men; let's get more trans women.