Ian Brown Quotes

Every type of discrimination whether social or cultural, whether based on sex, race, social condition, language or religion, is to be overcome and eradicated as contrary to God's intent.

There's the continuing challenges of racism, of sexism, of discrimination against the LGBT community, of the way that we treat people as opposed to how we want to be treated.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

Is Justice to be established by subjecting half of mankind to the will of the other half? Justice, Sir, is blind to colors, and weighs in equal scales the rights of all men whether white or black…. An opportunity is now presented, if not to diminish, at least to prevent the growth of a sin that sits heavy on the soul of every one of us.

I fight against racism and bigotry because I care about the people who are experiencing it.

There's something not right with a person's soul when they judge another human being to be less adequate because of their gender or skin color.

Separate but equal is a fraud.

We should treat each other better. Why in the hell would you still have racism? This ancient, moronic hatred? Why does our foreign policy have to always involve so much death and so much death of innocent people as a matter of course, to the point to where no one bothers to say anything. I guess a lot of people don't want to move forward. It's frustrating at times.

I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children are going to look back and say, 'What? You were around when gay people weren't allowed to get married?'

I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

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

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

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.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.