Angelica Ross Quotes

We need leadership in this country, which will improve the lives of working families, the children, the elderly, the sick and the poor. We need leadership which brings our people together and makes us stronger.

It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

In America, the dreamers, the disabled and the disadvantaged are not left to defend themselves, alone in their struggles.

We must make sure #MeToo breaks the race, class, gender, and faith lines that make it so hard for marginalized people to be heard.

My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.

I am a black woman, and my experiences would not be what they are if I wasn't. I'm so happy to share those experiences for other people to be able to learn from them.

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

If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding.

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

My vision is to hire qualified employees that may have not yet had the opportunity to create a better life for themselves, or did have one but might have came down on hard times and need a hand.

The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.

We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never been a sectional party promoting self-interest, but instead a force for engaging self-reliance and self-determination.

The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

I'm going to do whatever I have to do to help a New Yorker, whether it's a girl on the street or a tenant in a housing development.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

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.

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

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.

Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.