Yolanda King Quotes

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.

I think it is important that you have people from all different vanguards, from all different walks of society and different viewpoints to be focused on the struggle for equality and democracy. We need as many champions for the cause and as many events as possible to help keep this in focus.

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

Today, I see thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Nelson Mandelas marching forward and calling on us. The boys and girls have joined. I have joined in. We ask you to join, too.

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

Our party’s always been the place you can come to wherever there’s injustice. That’s what the Democratic Party’s for. That’s why it was born. That’s why it survives. So the poor and the downtrodden and the bended can have a place to turn.

Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.

So many minority youths had volunteered...that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like myself

People who have been empowered by positive change are demanding quick solutions to current problems.

The real power of any movement is how we work together with other social justice movements.

I think we can topple the patriarchy by using our voices to speak out against things that aren't right and that we don't agree with. I think for people who are not people of color or members of the LGBT community, it is being an ally and being an advocate in spaces that people of color or members of the LGBT community can't really get into.

I believe we can make progress on bringing true equality and fairness back to our government if we continue to work together and make our voices heard.

I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.

LGBT people are some of the bravest and most potent change agents and leaders I have encountered, and the most forceful defenders of the vulnerable and voiceless, because they know what it's like to be there.

I represent opportunities for other women and other people of color, and I'm trying to start my own kind of movement.

I'm known as a voice for a generation of people that don't have a voice.

I founded the 'me too' movement in 2006 because I wanted to find a way to connect with the black and brown girls in the program I ran.

The activism of marginalized people often comes with visibility and being heard. Which can lead people to believe that recognition and awareness is the actual end point. And it is not.

I hope my work inspires people to speak and to stand up together to make change. Big or small, it doesn't matter.

'Rise Up' is very necessary. Point blank.

I want my music to be not only representative of other people's lives but also contributing something to the struggle that people are going through.

When marginalized people gain voice and center their own experiences, things begin changing. And we see this in all kinds of grassroots movements.

Our greatest strength in our fight for justice is our people - the thousands of men and women who have dedicated their careers, often at great personal sacrifice, to working for justice in America.