“The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. And every cent spent on the cops, investigators, bureaucrats, courts, jails, weapons, and tests required to feed the drug-war machine is a cent not spent on reversing the social policies that have destroyed the cities, nourished racism, and laid the groundwork for crack culture.” WarWholeKidsCultureSocialBlackCommunityJusticeCitiesPolicyDrugCreatingWeaponsRacismTestsMachinesResponsibleCourtContraryDestroyedDecentNeighborhoodCracksJailCentsCopProhibitionDealerBureaucratsWar On DrugsInvestigatorsGroundworkSocial Policy Book:No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays Source: No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays
“I never pursued anything but acting. But as a kid, I was really interested in the Supreme Court. I wanted to to be a Supreme Court justice, but didn't want to be a lawyer. I just wanted to go straight to being a justice.” WantKidsWantedJusticeActingCourtLawyerSupremeSupreme CourtPursuedSupreme Court JusticeCourt Justice Author:Gillian Jacobs
“The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. That your sense of justice says, why should rich kids - who barely get these diseases and almost never die of them - why should they get the vaccines, when poor kids, who actually do die from these diseases, don't get those things? It's an unbelievable inequity that there isn't that access.” ThinkingShouldImportantIdeasHelpingKidsDiesJusticePoorRichDiseaseAccessUnbelievableVaccinesRich Kids Author:Bill Gates
“Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.” NeedsKidsHateSpeakCommunityLeadershipJusticeHuman NatureEqualRacismEthicsHuman RightsExcuseExtremesIdeologyHopefullyCivilizedEducateHalloweenEqual RightsCivilityIntimidatedNo ExcusesSpeaks OutCivilized SocietyBlackface Author:Christine Pelosi
“It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be words on paper, the work of every generation is to make those words mean something, concrete in the lives of our children. And we won't get there as long as kids in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York or Appalachia or the Mississippi delta or the Pine Ridge reservation believe that their lives are somehow worthless.” BelieveMeanChildrenLongEnoughKidsJusticeLibertyGenerationsNew YorkPaperBuiltIdealsOur ChildrenCelebrateConcreteWorthlessMississippiReservationsBaltimoreEquality And JusticeRidgesLiberty And JusticeDeltaFergusonEquality For AllAppalachiaWords On PaperMississippi Delta Author:Barack Obama
“Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in which over 50% of young African American kids are unemployed. It is estimated that a black baby born today has a one in four chance of ending up in the criminal justice system.” PeopleCountryKidsTodayYoungBlackBornJusticeChanceFourDyingBabyCriminalsAfrican AmericanBlack PeopleUnemployedJustice SystemCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice SystemOver 50Baby Born Author:Bernie Sanders
“The struggle to create a nation and world of economic and social justice and environmental sanity is not an easy one. The struggle to try and create a more peaceful world will be extremely difficult. But this I know: despair is not an option if we care about our kids and grandchildren. Giving up is not an option if we want to prevent irreparable harm to our planet.” IfsKnowsWorldWantGivingTryingCareKidsNationsSocialEasyDifficultJusticeStruggleEconomicPlanetsDespairGiving UpSocial JusticeEnvironmentalHarmPeacefulSanityGrandchildrenOur PlanetGiving Up Is Not An OptionPeaceful WorldEconomic JusticeIrreparableIrreparable Harm Author:Bernie Sanders
“In the very first debate I was asked am I a moderate or a progressive and I said I'm a progressive who likes to get things done. Cherry picking a quote here or there doesn't change my record of having fought for racial justice, having fought for kids rights, having fought the kind of inequities that fueled my interest in service in the first place going back to my days in the Children's Defense Fund.” FirstsKindChildrenSaidDoneKidsInterestJusticeRecordsRightsDefenseDebateLikesFundProgressiveModeratesThings DoneCherriesRacial Justice Author:Hillary Clinton