I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. For example, I am black. I know that. I also know that while I am black I am a human being. Therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people don’t know that. Every time I tried to go into a public place they stopped me. So some boys had to write a bill to tell that white man, “He’s a human being; don’t stop him.” That bill was for the white man, not for me. I knew I could vote all the time and that it wasn’t a privilege but my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived. So somebody had to write a bill to tell white people, “When a black man comes to vote, don’t bother him.” That bill was for white people.

Stokely Carmichael (via iwasabearonce)

Straight up true. See also: today’s Bill 13 in Ontario <3 <3, which was certainly not passed for the queer high schoolers that started the movement, but instead for the straight Catholic school administrators who harassed them and looked the other way as they were bullied.

(via void-liminality)

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