Clint Smith Quotes

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

The vision of Israel's prophets became the pillar of fire leading the struggle in support of the weak and the different towards equality.

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

I am passionate about human rights.

I am confident that if we stand for the hope and freedom of others we will make our own freedom more secure.

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle.

I think part of the problem with charity is that it tends to make us view people as helpless victims. I think in the future, we'll look back on charity in the same way that we look back on colonialism today: as a very paternalistic system that doesn't fully recognise the full spectrum of humanity.

Hey, I'm a human being also.

The great appear great to us only because we are on our knees;, LET US RISE!

Up you mighty race. You can accomplish what you will! Build your future on these foundations: Freedom, Justice and Equality.

We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for human rights.

Our country has, in my judgment, thus far fulfilled its highest duty to suffering humanity. It has spoken and will continue to speak, not only by its words, but by its acts, the language of sympathy, encouragement, and hope to those who earnestly listen to tones which pronounce for the largest rational liberty.

The key to empowerment is no more complicated than what Jesse Jackson said, 'We are somebody.' But the 'We are somebody' I would like to be in the larger sense: not just the urban African-American but homo sapiens in general - We are somebody.

We must not only imagine a better future for women, children, and persecuted minorities; we must work consistently to make it happen - prioritizing humanity, not war.

I'm not ashamed of who I am.

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

I think a lot of the source of how people are treated depends on the fact if someone recognizes them as a human being or not, you know what I mean?

Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop; it stands with the 'disposable' so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.