4610 quotes by activists for you to enjoy

If Trump is president, I think that his administration will do real structural damage that will take years or decades for us to undo. DeRay Mckesson

Will Think President Administration Structural Take Real His Years Trump Undo Decades Us Damage

Politics is compromise, by its very nature. But we never compromise on our values and beliefs. DeRay Mckesson

Politics Nature Values Our Compromise Never Very Beliefs

When Trump says, 'Make America great again,' he is referencing an era when people were singled out and harmed because of their race and religious beliefs, and when violent enforcement of Jim Crow masqueraded as the will of the people. DeRay Mckesson

Great People Will Jim Jim Crow Says Out Religious Religious Beliefs Crow He Make Because Era Singled Were Trump America Again Race Enforcement Beliefs Violent Harmed

A cacophony of whispers is also noise. There are many ways to be heard, and there are many ways to be visible. There are many ways to be seen. DeRay Mckesson

Noise Seen Visible Ways Also Heard Many

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two. DeRay Mckesson

Freedom People Be True Confuse True Know Comfort Always Two

I was taken to a boarding school when I was four years old and taken away from my mother and my father, my grandparents, who I stayed with most of the time, and just abruptly taken away and then put into the boarding school, 300 miles away from our home. Dennis Banks

In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles. Dennis Banks

Ran Through Countries Covering Across Miles Europe

It was like a complicit - there was complicity between the churches and the state in taking care of the 'Indian problem,' solving the 'Indian problem,' and trying to change who we were. Dennis Banks

Change Problem Care State Churches Complicit Complicity Indian Solving Taking Between Like Were Trying Problem-Solving Who

In 1967 the last Unity Caravan was held. Dennis Banks

Unity Held Caravan Last

The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running. Dennis Banks

Run Running Terms Least Canadian Different Actual

And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. Dennis Banks

Legal People Moral Still American Native Realized Standing Here

Every man should see the birth of his children. Dennis Banks

Man Every Birth See His Children Should Every Man

I'm on this road for the rest of my life. Dennis Banks

Life Rest My Life Road

If we follow the white man, we're going to drown with the white man. Dennis Banks

Man White Follow Drown Going

It feels like now I - you know, I'm almost 80 years old - I can sit back and retire, you know, and say, 'Look, our young people are taking over.' And that's great. That's what I'd like to see. Dennis Banks

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal. Dolores Huerta

Family Me Culture Women Mother Made Important Whatever Lesson Think Everybody Our Latino Brothers Never Like Equal Important Lesson Because Women Are Expected Anything Them Cook Serve

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others. Dolores Huerta

You Yourself Others Something How Forgive Forgiven

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice. Dolores Huerta

Justice Fight Son Congress Running Continue Social Social Justice

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don't think that anymore. Dolores Huerta

Work Me Thought Think Take Wrong Always Did Anymore Credit

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish - people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people - and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community. Dolores Huerta

History You Yourself People First Community Group Other Able About Give Like Look Talk First Thing Were Been Accomplish List The First Thing The History Of Ordinary Ordinary People Them Workers Working Working People Organizing Thing

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