Jason Mraz Quotes

I am an enemy of racism

I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a balanced universe in order to have peace and development.

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

We need to stop separating ourselves by how dark or how light we are.

In articulating all my feelings about marriage equality, I almost don't know where to begin. And perhaps that's part of the problem. Why do we have to explain ourselves when it comes to issues of fairness and equality? Why is common sense not enough?

When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.

Equal Rights for All, Special Privileges for None.

Equality is a monster.

I believe the time has come for equal rights for everyone in this country, even for white people.

Equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens without distinction of color, sex or nationality.

Put simply, we must always remember that separate but equal is not equal.

In the long run it is more important to us as a nation to show the world that we believe in equality of opportunity, that we realize that any kind of segregation is discrimination whether it comes about because of race, color, or creed, and that we are determined to show the world that we believe in the things we preach.

The dream of diversity is like the dream of equality. Both are based on ideals we celebrate even as we undermine them daily.

We must keep fighting until using the word 'equality' isn't necessary because we will all be living as one.

We must stand together united in solidarity against the targeting, demonization, and vilification of any group of people.

In the U.S. Senate, I'll fight discrimination everywhere it exists.

Clearly, on a visceral human front, I oppose any wall, anywhere, between any people - period.

For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that.

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin'

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.