Andrew Cohen Quotes

It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely who they are, but also all the country to understand what this means: what the civil rights movement does to us as people. It is part of the journey that we must be on in order to become fully evolved human beings.

It's the differences in people that help you realize who you are. Even if we silently pass each other on the street.

Make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You push for colour-blind casting; you draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are, not what colour your parents happen to be.

We as black people are not a monolithic bunch. We are not all the same, and neither are women. Instead, we are all individuals who have these extraordinary stories to tell and share with each other that will enrich all of our lives and help us all become more ourselves and better people.

I fight to prioritize black mothers and black children because we deserve to live in a world where our healing is centered and our lives are treated with dignity, respect, and care.

I think Pride, it means ultimately, finally, being able to live with freedom in some ways. Or, at least, that's what we're striving for.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.

I am passionate about human rights.

I hope that every film I make has something to offer in the area of making people feel either vindicated or different in terms of who they are.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad's message made a whole lot of people feel whole again, human being again. Some of them came out and found a new meaning to their manhood and their womanhood.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

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.

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

I think skating helped me find myself.

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with disabilities.

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.

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.