808 Quotes About Social-justice

As Jason Mogus has written, organizing is the act of building power; mobilizing is the act of spending the power you’ve built.

What is easy is sustainable. Birds coast when they can.

The act of claiming an identity can be transformational. It can provide healing and empowerment. It can weld solidarity within a community. And, perhaps most importantly, it can diminish power from an oppressor, a dominant group.

I am nothing more than a girl from the projects born of a single teenage-mother nurtured with love and opportunity

Eradication of pain, deviant, or oppositional behaviors does not indicate healing; however, it can signify successful conditioning.

The charges of ‘white privilege’ or ‘rape apologist’ are thrown around only because we no longer accuse people of being witches or communists when we wish to destroy them.

We are revolutionaries for peace and freedom not violence. And we are going to fight through creativity rather than aggression.

We refused to be what world want us to be- BAD. We are what we are- GOOD. And that's the way it is going to be.

It was around this time that I started thinking about how skin color defined class. The cowboy movies that fueled the goodness of ‘White’ reinforced attaching ‘darkness’ to a class. I finally took notice that the crayon color called ‘flesh’ did not match mine.