Jeff Fortenberry Quotes

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.

Racial discrimination is wrong and racial preference is just as wrong.

Every type of discrimination whether social or cultural, whether based on sex, race, social condition, language or religion, is to be overcome and eradicated as contrary to God's intent.

Popery and Slavery, like two sisters, go hand in hand, sometimes one goes first. Sometimes the other, in a door, but the other is always following close at hand.

It falls to me as a Christian minister and a practitioner of religion to indicate that in the matter of sexual prejudice, religion is fundamentally a part of the problem and one can only hope that by acknowledging that, it may well indeed become part of the solution as well. Perhaps the one thing that my profession and yours have in common is that we have a great deal to answer for in the question of this prejudice which we are confronting today.

Never admit more than five Jews, take only two Italian Catholics, and take no blacks at all.

We've come a long way, but there is still a lot of discrimination.

It's not only inhumane to treat Puerto Ricans as second-class citizens. It's deeply un-American.

There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country... I stand with those opposing such bigotry.

There's something not right with a person's soul when they judge another human being to be less adequate because of their gender or skin color.

Making sweeping over-generalizations is classically un-American.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.

I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

I cannot reconcile monitoring certain people for no reason other than their religion with the freedom of religion we have here in America.

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.

Everyone knows that life isn't fair. Saying it's not fair suggests that you think life is supposed to be fair, which makes you look immature and naive.

Discrimination is a disease.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.