John Lennon Quotes

Whether it's racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, xenophobia, religious intolerance or other bias - we demand to live in a country where we can be safe to be who we are, believe what we want and love whomever we want.

Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world.

We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way.

If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

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

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

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

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.

The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.

I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act.

I don't believe we ought to be discriminating against people for their private lives.

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

We ask to be recognized as men.

Irishmen and Irishwomen! treat the colored people as your equals, as brethren.

Americans do not care what your origins are. They care what your destination is.

I don't see how you can separate human rights and the rights of all people, no matter what their sexual orientation is.

I always felt that it was never the duty of a person to really stand up for their gender or their race or anything like that - I always felt that was a personal choice. But I do feel now that maybe my opinion is evolving or changing a little bit.

I've always felt very strongly about human rights for blacks, women, and gays. Our Constitution is about equality for all - that's got to mean something to all of us.

I saw America as a land of opportunity, not a bastion of racism or sexism.

I've experienced Islamophobic stuff. But I don't care - you can say whatever you want to say about me, but I am who I am. I think that what I'm trying to fight for and what I'm performing for is bigger than any religion, race, creed, or class.

What I have realized is I cannot guarantee the absence of discrimination or hatred or prejudice, but I can guarantee the presence of justice.