David Lammy Quotes

What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.

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

I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.

We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.

Opportunity seems to be color-coded here in America

By 'Freedom' for Negroes, I meant and still mean, full economic, political and Social equality with American citizens, in thought, expression and action, with no discrimination based on race or color.

I think that everybody should have the same opportunities.

I can't serve just the Negro cause. I've got to serve all the people of Massachusetts.

Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.

Our work to provide equal opportunities for all Americans should be a year-round mission.

All children should have equal opportunities.

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.

If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.

The only way you get to the goal of color blindness is to be color conscious along the way.

Subsection (1) does not preclude any law, program or activity that has as its object the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups including those that are disadvantaged because of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age, or mental or physical disability

We suspect that 25 years from now the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary.

The destiny of the colored American... is the destiny of America.

I have tried to suggest that injustice is not necessary economic -- that the economics can work, and has often worked, when the constituency for it is animated. The politics of equality -- that is a little harder.

We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

There are still forces in America that want to divide us along racial lines, religious lines, sex, class. But we've come too far; we've made too much progress to stop or to pull back. We must go forward. And I believe we will get there.

I am for 100% equality across the board for everybody, in all walks of life.

I know our country can remain forward-thinking by ensuring young women and minorities are given equal opportunity.

We feel that the Republican platform presents the best opportunity for the success of minority families. All minority groups seek the same opportunities in the United States that the settlers from Europe did when they came over.

Social justice is the surest guarantor of peace in the world.

Asian-Americans are fighting for space and fighting for visibility and for acceptance.