Gail Collins Quotes

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

Desegregation is a joke.

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

And Justice for Some

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

Put simply, we must always remember that separate but equal is not equal.

All men are created equal. Some, it appears, are created a little more equal than others.

He apologizes for injustice …. Belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions…. He should be unceasingly and firmly opposed.

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

I do not believe as Martin Luther King did, that the arc of history bends towards justice. I see the arc of history bending towards chaos or the unknown.

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

The civil rights movement didn't end on August 6, 1965. It continued because the work of creating a truly equal country never ends.

I want to make things equal.

I couldn't see why a black man wasn't allowed to drink out of the same water fountain or sit in the same bus or go to the same schools as a white guy.

There's something in people's character, particularly the British character, about unfairness. They don't like it.

Everyone is beautiful, and the world isn't equal - and we need to fight towards that.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

America stands for freedom, liberty and justice for all. And it's not happening for all right now.

I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children are going to look back and say, 'What? You were around when gay people weren't allowed to get married?'

I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.