Quotes about Equality

If you are born in America with a black skin, you're in prison

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against.

This is still one of the black man's big troubles today. So many of those so-called "upper class" Negroes are so busy trying to impress on the white man that they are "different from those others" that they can't see they are only helping the white man to keep his low opinion of all Negroes.

For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, 'Do you hate me?

Shorty felt about the war the same way I and most ghetto Negroes did: Whitey owns everything. He wants us to go and bleed for him? Let him fight.

The well-meaning white people, I said, had to combat, actively and directly, the racism in other white people. And

If you're afraid of black nationalism, you're afraid of revolution. And if you love revolution, you love black nationalism.

We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, my brothers and sisters—Plymouth Rock landed on us!

He believed, as did Marcus Garvey, that freedom, independence and self-respect could never be achieved by the Negro in America, and that therefore the Negro should leave America to the white man and return to his African land of origin.

the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's non-white man.

I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man—and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their 'differences' in color.

Indeed, how can white society atone for enslaving, for raping, for unmanning, for otherwise brutalizing millions of human beings, for centuries? What atonement would the God of Justice demand for the robbery of the black people's labor, their lives, their true identities, their culture, their history--and even their human dignity?