Erik Spoelstra Quotes

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

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

We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity.

However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.

We were taught in school, and I was taught at home and in church, that blacks and whites were equal and we should not discriminate based on skin color, even if my school was almost entirely white.

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

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

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.

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

Ours has not been a racially democratic society for 300 years.

Now in speaking like this, it doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression. And if the white man doesn't want us to be anti-him, let him stop oppressing and exploiting and degrading us.

He shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

There will be a day sometime in the near future when this guide will not have to be published. That is when we as a race will have equal rights and privileges in the United States.

The fight against racism must be seen as a revolutionary one.

We cannot just be nonracist. We really do need to be antiracist.

I'm here to say all lives matter.

We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

There are people in our country, in our communities who are being marginalized and discriminated against every single day. I fight for them.

Black, white and brown people have to work together to find new answers. The only way we can stop the systemic problems that people of color have faced all our lives is through honesty and transparency.

There is no future without all of us - black, brown and white - coming together.

It's impossible to play football in a world among men and not fight for equality.

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

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