DeRay Mckesson Quotes

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory. The right to play on any playing field? You have earned it. The right to study in any school? You have earned it. The right to hold a job? You have earned it. The right to anyone's neighbor? You have earned it.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.

Freedom is not enough.

If you want peace, work for justice.

Up you mighty race. You can accomplish what you will! Build your future on these foundations: Freedom, Justice and Equality.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

Compassion, hope, and opportunity are some of the most fundamentally American values that we should fight like hell to protect.

We all want equality, we all want to be loved, we all want to have the full potential and opportunity to grow and to participate fully in our societies.

I stand up for all rights.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

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.

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

If you want peace work for justice.

On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.

Freedom demands conditions of an economic, social, political and cultural kind which makes possible its full exercise.

Stronger than all the armies is the idea whose time has come. The time has come for equality in sharing in government and education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here.

Our party’s always been the place you can come to wherever there’s injustice. That’s what the Democratic Party’s for. That’s why it was born. That’s why it survives. So the poor and the downtrodden and the bended can have a place to turn.

I hope that liberty and equality and opportunity lie within your heart because the hopes of millions of Americans depend on it.

The vision of Israel's prophets became the pillar of fire leading the struggle in support of the weak and the different towards equality.