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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life.

What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system.

While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.

Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.