Kevin Gates Quotes

The whole issue of race and discrimination is a moral issue.

We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

The unified message in this fight against systemic racism and racial inequality is something that our entire Association is united to fight against.

However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.

Affirmative action is under attack today, not because it has failed, but because it succeeded.

…Anything less than full equality is not enough. If we compromise on that principle our soul is dead

I'm here to say all lives matter.

In 2013, I helped create a black-centered political will- and movement-building project called #BlackLivesMatter.

I think Black Lives Matter is a necessary, modern group of activism and should be applauded. I encourage them to continue in their efforts.

When Black Lives Matter started, it was polarizing.

Black Lives Matter is the ultimate divisive movement.

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin'

I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.

You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.

We have not always agreed, but I have said repeatedly and publicly many times that Al Sharpton has never counseled violence, but he gets blamed for a whole lot of that.

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.

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.

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.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.