Jill Stein Quotes

All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

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

We want to see a world where black lives matter in order for us to get to a world where all of our humanity is respected.

I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.

There are some groups that for years and years have not gotten the rights that the majority of human beings have, and I think that it's important to continue to draw these parallels so that when we think about our future we can change some of the lives of people who love differently than we do, look different than we do, who come from a different class. It's all about bringing awareness to how important it is to be accepting of people...and there will be oppression if one group thinks they're more important or superior.

I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...

Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute our talents whatever our race, sex, religion, ancestry, age. Human rights are indivisible!

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

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.

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.

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 don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

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.

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

Brown v. Board is the foundation by which all Americans can look for hope - hope for their children, hope for their families, and hope for a better future.

I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the voting rights act re-enacted. I have been a strong supporter of affirmative action. I believe in it strongly.

Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one should only rejoice in such a divine triumph of the sacrificial idea in history; for it would mean the humanization of mankind.