Roxane Gay Quotes

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

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

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.

I'll continue fighting as long as these social injustices exist.

I do not believe as Martin Luther King did, that the arc of history bends towards justice. I see the arc of history bending towards chaos or the unknown.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

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?

I fight against racism and bigotry because I care about the people who are experiencing it.

I'd like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism... all the usual things.

WL’s [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don’t believe that. There’s a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. It’s what separates us from roaches

If there is wrong, you don't say we have to get rid of it gradually. If injustice exists, you need to eliminate it immediately.

If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.

Wherever injustice occurs, we all need to be concerned.

The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people.

Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example.

When people said Africa would change me, I didn't understand what they meant. To see the poverty in the townships, for instance, is overwhelming. I found it heart-wrenching to see young children walking barefoot and hungry in the dirt. I'm the kind of person who wants to change the world right here and now, so I got frustrated.