Morris Dees Quotations

What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans.

If I told you what we were doing there, I would have to kill you.

Without public pressure from caring people, our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse.

Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.

What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.

That's the problem that we're facing. And it's not just in the area of racial prejudice; it's in the area of gender, the area of sexual preferences.

When we got into this case, ranchers all along the border were allowing these types to come on their property, ... Now, they're very leery of it, especially when they see someone loosing their ranch because of it.

It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more -- what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore.

We have a lot of systemic, built-in bias and prejudice ? not just against race, but against those others who are different than the majority of us in this country.