Maxine Waters Quotes

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, "His color is not mine," or "His beliefs are strange and different," in that moment he betrays America

If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green.

We need more leaders speaking up for minority groups who have been marginalized and attacked.

We need someone who is going to stand up, speak up, and speak out for the people who need help, for the people who have been discriminated against.

There are people in our country, in our communities who are being marginalized and discriminated against every single day. I fight for them.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

American Muslims - young American Muslims in particular - are starting to understand that unless they are willing to stand up for all the other oppressed communities in this country, including those discriminated against for their gender or sexuality, then no one will stand up for them.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

We need to make sure that we have one another's back and recognize the fact that patriots come in all different sizes, shapes, colors, not all of them wear uniforms, some of them are employers, some of them are the family members who stay at home and take of business back here in the state of Oklahoma.

What our country really is, the home of oppression and injustice, a nightmare of misery, an inferno of suffering and human hell, a jungle of wild beasts.

We are all Jews now.

Brother! We have, as your friends, fought by your side, and have poured out our blood in your defense, but our arms are now broken. You have grown large. My people have become small, and there are none who take pity on them.

One united people, regardless of race, language or religion.

It's always a collective group of people coming together to oppose those things which are fundamentally contrary to our basic humanity.

We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for people who are being discriminated against. And it doesn't matter whether they are black or white, Latino, Asian or Native American, whether they are straight or gay, Muslim, Christian, or Jews.

We march on because all lives matter, not to be judged by the color of their skin.

Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.

I don't believe that the fight for trans rights or African American rights is different from the fight against war, or the fight for refugees.

I began using the #smallacts hashtag on Twitter shortly after the 2016 election as a way to resist. To resist the intolerance growing in our nation, to resist an upcoming administration that I believe threatens to pull us backward and strip rights from those already marginalized.

I don't like laughing at people unless they're in a privileged position or if they're in authority. If it's poor people or people who live on the outskirts or on the margins, or the underdog, I'd rather be laughing with them.

We must stand together united in solidarity against the targeting, demonization, and vilification of any group of people.