Gwen Ifill Quotes

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

Equal opportunity does not come from tolerance; it comes from acceptance.

It is our responsibility to stand up for equality, fairness, and civil rights.

I could speak for hours about equality and what needs to change in football and in society as a whole. But in the end, everything comes back to respect.

You have a responsibility to make inclusion a daily thought, so we can get rid of the word 'inclusion.'

Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for 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?

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

We can be more inclusive.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

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.

Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.

If you want peace work for justice.

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.