Maya Angelou Quotes

Black lives matter just as much as White lives matter, just as much as Hispanic lives matter.

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

Negro members shall be treated as white members

Race has no place in American life or law.

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.

Society of the Friends of Blacks

I believe race is too heavy a burden to carry into the 21st century. It's time to lay it down. We all came here in different ships, but now we're all in the same boat.

I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds and his conscious behavior. And it teaches me to be for the rights of all human beings, but especially the Afro-American human being, because my religion is a natural religion, and the first law of nature is self-preservation.

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil war, is now a point of pride for all Americans. We must never go back. There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country.

During the canvass in the State of Mississippi, I traveled into different parts of that state, and this is the doctrine that I everywhere uttered: that while I was in favor of building up the colored race, I was not in favor of tearing down the white race.

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

And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.

Right is of no sex – Truth is of no color.

I am the equal of any white man. I want you to feel the same way.

Race must never be a partisan issue.

Equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens without distinction of color, sex or nationality.

Unless we get white people into the streets with Negroes for the march [on Washington], the fight will appear to be between white people and black and not between justice and injustice.

Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.

At the end of the day, if you're not against racism, you're racist.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.