Colin Kaepernick Quotes

How can you stand for the national anthem of a nation that preaches and propagates, 'freedom and justice for all,' that is so unjust to so many of the people living there?

It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime - namely, repressive justice.

Social injustice is such a familiar phenomenon ... that it is readily regarded as something natural, even by its victims.

Liberty without equality is a name of noble sound and squalid result.

Is Justice to be established by subjecting half of mankind to the will of the other half? Justice, Sir, is blind to colors, and weighs in equal scales the rights of all men whether white or black…. An opportunity is now presented, if not to diminish, at least to prevent the growth of a sin that sits heavy on the soul of every one of us.

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

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.

We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.

We are living in tumultuous times, and our focus should be fighting against the oppression and injustices that are against us - not battling those who are on the same side of seeking justice and peace.

It's always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.

The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.

Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.