It makes no sense that this country has 11 million workers feeding, building this country, making America what it is, and they don't share the same rights of those who are consuming the fruit of their...

I think police brutality has been going on since - I don't know - ever since I can remember and, you know, hearing about it in my childhood.

No matter how far you think you have come, racism exists.

It should be self-evident that women have the right to make decisions about their own bodies. Yet throughout history, those in power - usually men - have tried to control women's bodies.

Bisexuality started a long, long time ago. You just have to support it. There's nothing wrong with it. We all bleed the same, we're all going one way in the end - six feet down. I support the gays...

That's why the role that I have on 'Grey's Anatomy' is important to me, because it's a human being. He doesn't have to wear race on his sleeve; he doesn't even have to talk about it. We just lead by...

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

No voters will be left behind.

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

Democratic socialism means that our government does everything it can to create a full employment economy.

White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations for racial...

I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had...

I have lived poverty. I didn't choose it. No one would choose humiliation, pain, and rage.

I am a criminal. Coming to terms with this aspect of my identity has helped me to see more clearly - with blinders off - the ways in which I have been encouraged not to feel any connection to 'them,'...

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

We must stand united in our commitment to eradicating domestic violence and uplift the courageous individuals who have faced its devastating effects.

I think that there are real concerns that we have around whose life is important and why. So if the official story is, for example, somebody was running from the police, does their life matter?

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

In so many of our communities and countries, racism is endemic. It's built in, like a rot in a frame.

We must display a heart for every American, and a special passion for those still on the first rung of life's ladder.

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

We were in denial about the extent to which Britain had cured itself of the poison of racism.

Prior to Katrina, the South Bronx and New Orleans' Ninth Ward had a lot in common. Both were largely populated by poor people of color, both hotbeds of cultural innovation: think hip-hop and jazz....

Working families have continuously fought for better wages, inclusion, a voice on the job, against threats to budget cuts, and a place at the table to ensure our future generations and communities...

Tackling the extreme gap between the rich and the poor and tackling climate change is part of the same struggle.

If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.

Is not the brand of 'double-dealer' stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not fraud and hypocrisy the religion of the man who calls himself a democrat, and hold his fellow-man...

When marginalized people gain voice and center their own experiences, things begin changing. And we see this in all kinds of grassroots movements.

The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.

Let's invest in our local schools to make sure that teachers have a livable wage.