Megan Rapinoe Quotes

We will have demonstrations until the injustices that have caused them are eliminated.

We cannot rebuild the American Dream here at home by catering to the voices of the privileged and powerful.

The same way I'm not afraid of calling out systemic discrimination, I'm also not afraid of calling out inequality and the fact that inequality is growing in society and that affects everybody, regardless of race.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

The Black Lives Matter movement, the various Occupy movements in Spain and the rest of Europe, in this country, and elsewhere serve as an example of what can be done, and how strong the voices for positive change and truly democratic progress can be.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.

In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism, we will continue to be distracted by the spectre of race.

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality for somebody else. Let's pass it on. Let's pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.

We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

I don't think we should stop emphasizing race because I think, you know, race is still very, very important, and we have to recognize that and continue to introduce programs to address racial inequities. But we have to widen our vision and also address the growing problems of economic class.

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

For every social wrong there must be a remedy.

We must strip away slogans such as “states’ rights.” We must attach the “wrongs” of society.

Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us.

No nation can be freer than its most oppressed, richer than its poorest, wiser than its most ignorant.

Tackling inequality isn’t easy. It never has been and it never will be.

It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.

I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder