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“Black lives matter is not a black people's movement - metoo is not a women's movement - pride is not a gay people's movement - it's all humanity's movement - a movement for being accepted as humans by the humans.”
― Abhijit Naskar, No Foreigner Only Family

“The opposite of racist isn't 'not racist.' It is 'anti-racist.' What's the difference? One endorses either the idea of a racial hierarchy as a racist, or racial equality as an anti-racist. One either believes problems are rooted in groups of people, as a racist, or locates the roots of problems in power and policies, as an anti-racist. One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an anti-racist. There is no in-between safe space of 'not racist.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“You always thought older people were wiser. It's not that. It's just that our relatives are dead and we're able to speak freely.”
― Ariel Gore

“If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”
― Toni Morrison