Michael Tubbs Quotes

The only way you get to the goal of color blindness is to be color conscious along the way.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

I want all of the work that I do to have a social justice footprint attached. I want it to move the needle forward when it comes to the perception of all people, but especially people of color.

It's not enough to just not be racist. You've got to be anti-racist. You've got to hold everybody accountable.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.

I don't think the job of the antiracist is to convert the far-out heathen racist, or give them their 'come to Jesus' moment, as it's called. They'll either have those or they won't, and usually, when they have them, it's not because of something someone said per se; it's because of some life crisis that makes them rethink.

To ignore race and sex is racist and sexist.

The whole issue of race and discrimination is a moral issue.

It's not good enough to say we value diversity and then underrepresent women and minorities.

We cannot afford to be color-blind, we have to be color-brave.

Education is the key solution for change, for peace, and for help in the fight against racism and discrimination in general.

We have a duty to face racism and to fight it.

I love when white people use their privilege to combat prejudice.

There are positive steps being taken to tackle issues that people from all walks of life, races, ethnicities, and political persuasions agree have been devastating to communities of color.

I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.