Lori Lightfoot Quotes

The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.

I've certainly experienced being treated not as an equal.

I am not OK with the system that allows certain people to fail or be chucked out. I don't accept that.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Remember, this is a country where even the non-Jews know they have no rights.

Despite the advances in technology and communications that link us more closely than ever before, there remains the reality of division at so many levels in our world. We see these divides between rich and poor, between women and men, between different religions or ethnic groups, between citizens and migrants. We know as well that these divides are at the core of so many of today's conflicts.

The trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are discriminated against think of themselves as second-class.

Resentment — that feeling when the modern promise of equality collides with massive disparities of power, education, status and property ownership.

I have a chip on my shoulder I pet every morning, a constant feeling like I have something to prove. Hearing that the canon can't be diversified, there's no room for more brown faces - that fueled my fire.

I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves.

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.