Eva Longoria Quotes

Racism was once just racism, a terrible bigotry that people nevertheless learned to live with, if not as a necessary evil then as an inevitable one. But the civil-rights movement, along with independence movements around the world, changed that.

'Push back' is the word; that's what we gotta do against ignorance. I see so much of it, and it's dangerous.

Deep in my heart, I care about social-justice warriors.

I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

I believe in the power of media. I really do. It's my soapbox. And I do have an agenda, because I'm enraged by the limitations forced on people - by poverty, oppression, hatred, fear - and I'm saddened by the kind of loss we all experienced due to the contributions that people cannot make because of their circumstances.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

If I was born 400 years ago instead of now, I wouldn't have the life I have. There were freak shows, and there was horrible discrimination.

Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.

The fundamental error of Europe has been to confine the light of knowledge to the wealthy and great, while the humble and the depressed have been as sedulously excluded from its participation as the wretched criminal, immured in a dungeon, is from the light of Heaven.

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.

I was functioning in a time when people were struggling, and they knew they had to struggle, and I was a part of that struggle. It wasn't just women.

It is important to me to keep fighting for the rights of those who cannot.

I'm just about social justice. Amen to women like me!

It's hard for men sometimes to talk about feminism, just as it's hard for people who aren't from ethnic minorities to talk about racial prejudice. It's a difficult conversation to have, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have it.

Racism is a form of hate. We pass it on to our young people. When we do that, we are robbing children of their innocence.

I haven't experienced a lot of prejudice in my life, but I'm not naive to what goes on in the world.

I feel that my purpose is to shed light on some of the darker sides of our world, and to lend a hand and a voice to people struggling.

Ignorance is the source of hatred, and the way to get rid of ignorance is realization.

We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.

Our protest was a cry for freedom and for civil rights. We had to be seen because we couldn’t be heard.

We will have demonstrations until the injustices that have caused them are eliminated.

I'll continue fighting as long as these social injustices exist.