Harry Hay Quotes

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

Because of the Civil Rights movement, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody ... Not just for blacks and whites, but also women and Latinos; and Asians and Native Americans; and gay Americans and Americans with a disability. They swung open for you, and they swung open for me. And that's why I'm standing here today-because of those efforts, because of that legacy.

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

Finally, let understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.

I can't serve just the Negro cause. I've got to serve all the people of Massachusetts.

In order for critical pedagogy, dialogue, and thought to have real effects, they must advocate the message that all citizens, old and young, are equally entitled, if not equally empowered, to shape the society in which they live.

What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized.

The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.

The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.

The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.

If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.

I rejoice that I have lived to see this day, when the colored people of this favored land, by law, have equal privileges with the most favored. And I have faith to believe that ere long equal justice will be granted to the poor Indians and the Chinese.

The rights, privileges and responsibilities of full American citizenship. This is all that the Negro asks. He will not willingly accept less. As long as America offers less, she will be that much less a democracy. The whole way is the American way

Ted Kennedy’s life’s work was not to champion those with wealth or power or special connections. It was to give a voice to those who were not heard, to add a rung to the ladder of opportunity, to make real the dream of our founding.

The Time's Up campaign is for everyone, in all capacities, contributions big and small.

We need more leaders speaking up for minority groups who have been marginalized and attacked.

People need to see signs of equal treatment across society.

After all we have been through, blacks and other minorities deserve to be protected, as anyone else.

As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.

It may be a task that's so Herculean, but I think it's a worthy goal to try to open up America to individuals who just so happen to have a different skin color, that they have every right and every freedom to think what they want to think.