Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite...

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve...

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.

This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they are better than others.

It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very inconvenient.

Worship Allah and associate nothing with Him, and to parents do good, and to relatives, orphans, the needy, the near neighbor, the neighbor farther away, the companion at your side, the traveler, and...

O.K., so I'm not so smart. I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world running, and it's the working class that gets exploited. What the hell kind of revolution have you got...

I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?

Almost 1/2 the world's wealth {$110 trillion} is owned by just 1% of its population

How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground?

I will keep writing about these intersections as a writer and a teacher, as a black woman, as a bad feminist, until I no longer feel like what I want is impossible. I no longer want to believe that...

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

When water fountains start charging to drink, then you know we have a problem.

"So you're the infamous Manal al-Sharif," he said, eyeing me from behind his desk. "Aren't you ashamed of what you did? Is driving a car something shameful?" I answered back.

Our privileges are the things not within our own control that push us forward and move us ahead from that starting line. Acknowledging them does not mean you are admitting to doing something to...

To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not...

What matters is not how affluent a country is but how unequal it is.

Avowed preference for an elite based on merit was misconstrued by enemies into a secret adoration of aristocracy.

To yell "black - on - black crime" is to shoot a man and then shame him for bleeding. And

Americans believe in the reality of "race" as a defined, indubitable feature of the natural world. Racism - the need to ascribe bone-deep features to people and then humiliate, reduce, and destroy...

This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish.

Sensing an abandonment of Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass wondered what good abolition had been for the black man if having been freed from the slaveholder's lash, he is to be subject to the...

I hate the bigotry you believe in. But I'll try not to hate you.

The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

There were no secrets in Village. It was one of the rules that Leader had proposed, and all of the people had voted in favor of it. Everyone who had come to Village from elsewhere, all of those who...