Jenny Zhang Quotes

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.

I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

... equal responsibilities are less popular than equal rights.

Much depends upon us for the help of our color—more than many are aware. If we are lazy and idle, the enemies of freedom plead it as a cause why we ought not to be free … by such conduct we strengthen the hands of oppression and keep many in bondage …. I entreat you to consider the obligations we lie under ….

A group oppressed, is a group enslaved ….Whenever a group, a community of people, in unison, feels that it is being oppressed, and that it wants to control its destiny, then that community has a moral right to seek effective redress, or demand to control its own destiny as appropriate

No people will be truly free until all are free.

The work does not end with the abolition of slavery but only begins.

I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

Freedom is just freedom. It is a condition, not an agent of change. It does not develop or uplift those who win it. Freedom holds us accountable no matter the disadvantages we inherit from the past.

I'm definitely drawn to stories about outsiders. Feeling like that myself as a gay black man, I often seek to give a voice to those in the world who don't have one.

We need to fight for the equal rights of citizens.

You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.

It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and that the ballot in their hands is less dangerous to society than a sense of wrong is in their heads.

The cry of the Have-Nots has never been "give us our hearts," but always "get off our backs"; they ask not for love but for breathing space.

I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.

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

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.