Unequal Access Quotes

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

The Negro is going to be relegated to the menial jobs and will not get his promotions because the competition is too tough.

The elites benefit from affirmative action programs even when those programs are designed to help the masses.

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.

Colorism and racism don't stop when you're a musician or when you have wealth or when you're in any given position.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

As class barriers tumbled and Britain became a more meritocratic society, young, well-educated Scots were best placed to exploit the new social mobility.

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

I didn't believe one man should have so much services and another man should have none.

I'm not supposed to be here. A lot of people from where I'm from don't make it.

Whenever we have sought real progress through affirmative action, the spokespersons of the advantaged have not hesitated to cry foul ….

I'm aware that not everybody gets that feeling of ease walking through the world that I have.

I am acquainted with many Negro poets, contractors, labor leaders, journalists, social workers, physicians, novelists ... It does not strike me as strange that Negroes should be doing all sorts of work. But white people continue to be amazed when they hear of Negroes having such vocations, They regard successful Negroes as freaks, along with trained seals, and infant chess prodigies. .

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

By us, and not for us

I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance. Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything. All the time. I feel like I'm not taken seriously.

… better a glass door than a glass ceiling.

For me, true and authentic democracy occurs when the privileged groups assist the unprivileged groups to become more privileged.

I am certain that my white colleagues, when faced with an emergency situation, wouldn't think twice about calling the police. This, however, may not be the case for their black and Latino students.

Except for teachers, who are 'controlled' as far as his militancy is concerned, good jobs are rare for Negroes.

See, the Black man gotta fly to get to something the white man can walk to.

You grow up in America and you're told from day one, 'This is the land of opportunity.' That everybody has an equal chance to make it in this country. And then you look at places like Harlem, and you say, 'That is absolutely a lie.'

The women of Gilead have so little power.

People are prejudiced but water isn’t. The Katrina flood went everywhere.