Words matter. These are the best Shaun King Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I tend to write two stories every day, five days a week. It’s a real grind. But it also allows me to really try to have my finger on the pulse of injustice in America.
While I fundamentally reject the notion that anyone who owned other human beings was either good, moral, or decent, Francis Scott Key left absolutely no doubt that he was a stone-cold bigot. He came from generations of plantation-owning bigots. They got wealthy off of it.
Injustice has exhausted people but also pushed them to organize and fight back in very sophisticated ways.
While I am furious about injustice, I do what I do, fighting against it, out of a place of love.
Racism itself is difficult to measure. We can measure hate crimes – which are absolutely an indicator. We can measure reports of discrimination. We can measure the number of times hateful words are being used across the Internet. Those things all help us measure racism, but it can sometimes be nebulous.
Before I was a journalist, I was a preacher in Georgia and Kentucky.
When you are a coordinated partner, you are, in effect, on the campaign staff. You can talk to the whole staff and have virtually no limits on what you can discuss and strategize around. When you are an independent friend of the campaign, you are not allowed to strategize with the campaign on their political decisions.
To defeat Donald Trump, the Democrats must run a stellar cast of all-stars in their primary.
My work has never been about me, and I’ve never made a big deal about my race. I’ve actually tried hard to avoid ever making a big deal out of it and have, instead, simply tried to do good work that matters.
Bill Clinton is just as gross as Donald Trump – so much so that the Clinton campaign can’t really back Trump into a corner on his integrity or mistreatment of women because Bill’s personal history is so damn awful.
When 63 million people voted to elect Donald Trump as the president of the United States, it opened up the floodgates for toxic white masculinity in America.
People I love and trust advise me to just drop off the face of the Earth for an extended period of time, and maybe that will calm or cool things down. But my work is very public work.
Before I ever endorse a candidate, I meet them, interview them, interview their colleagues and evaluate their competitors, study their positions and ideas, look at their campaign… then make a decision.
Our nation is not a fully representative democracy if we do not have a one-person, one-vote method of directly electing our president. It disproportionately tilts favor to smaller states with smaller populations.
Politicians can and should be held accountable for their choices.
We must put an end to the corruption and systemic racism in our justice system, and that starts by electing progressive district attorneys who will fight for real justice across the country.
America was not built on kindness or the Christianity of Christ. It was not built on freedom or liberty. This nation was built on white supremacy.
When you’re trying to bust through the noise on social media, you do have to be overt and loud.
When you turn 18 in the United States, you should be automatically registered to vote. Ideally, this sensible reform would be a federal law affecting all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and American territories, but our federal government stopped being sensible a very long time ago.
For about a year, I worked for ‘Daily Kos.’ They were great. I mean, they allowed me to write whatever I was thinking about and feeling. ‘The New York Daily News’ saw it. They were making some pretty big changes. They hired a new editor in chief. I was his first hire.
I was raised by a great single mother. I grew up in rural Kentucky, and she’s just a really compassionate woman.
Every day I walk down the street or hop on the subway, I am reminded that I am a citizen of a very big, incredibly diverse world.
It was my long-held belief that police brutality would increase under the Trump administration.
I was in high school when Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath about his relationship with Lewinsky. We didn’t have social media back then – hell, we didn’t have a computer with the Internet in our home – so the details of it all escaped me.
Very few police officers are ever held accountable for even the most egregious shootings and acts of violence.
I fight against racism and bigotry because I care about the people who are experiencing it.
It’s hard to understand a moment in history when you are in it.
I’ve always loved technology – not gadgets so much… but I’ve enjoyed using technology to connect people to people and connect people to opportunities to do good.
Over and over again, I looked family members who had lost loved ones to police violence, I looked them right in the eye and told them, ‘Don’t worry. We will get justice for your family.’
I like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. In a dream world, the bread is super soft, like the Wonder Bread of my childhood, and the sandwich will have crunchy peanut butter, strawberry jam, and a cup of cold milk to go with it.
Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.
Conservatives will fight hard to preserve the institutions of mass incarceration and police brutality. Because they don’t see themselves as victims of these things, but as benefactors, they will fight hard to preserve the status quo against a reform candidate.
Politicians and lawmakers are willing to watch us take us a knee, watch us march, watch us picket and protest – and wait us out. They are willing and prepared to outlast us – and, in most cases, to do absolutely nothing about the problems we highlight and amplify.
Anne Marie Schubert is one of the most horrible district attorneys in the state of California. She represents Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions. It’s no wonder she continuously refuses to hold the police accountable for violence against people of color.
For my entire life, I have held the cards of my complicated family history very close to my chest.
The United States has so many laws, into the millions, that experts have lost track of just how many laws we have.
No man represents toxic white masculinity more than Donald Trump.
I became personal friends with Erica Garner and with so many other families affected by police violence.
‘Black Panther’ had a whole cast of beautiful black brilliance. Black scientists. Black presidents. The style. The technology. The color.
I love New York. It’s my favorite city in the world. I live and work here by choice.
When Trump was elected, it gave white men – particularly white men in power – full, unfettered permission to say or do whatever they want without consequence.
I have been told for most of my life that the white man on my birth certificate is not my biological father and that my actual biological father is a light-skinned black man.
A tweet is fast. But everything about policy change is very slow. And a lot of us are impatient.
Boston’s justice system is in serious need of reform. Many of its policies and practices are antiquated, expensive, and don’t really even make Boston safer.
By the time I reached middle school, I fully identified myself not even as biracial but just as black.
I love social media, and it is an important part of how we make change happen. But we can’t retweet ourselves out of our most serious problems.
Never have I once identified myself as white.
It takes guts in this country to refuse to be a Democrat or a Republican.
I think what irritates both conservatives and liberals alike is when news outlets pretend that they don’t have an agenda but then clearly do, be it in the editorial decisions they make and the guests they have and the material that they cover.
Some of the most destructive forms of racism – like being denied a home loan or being passed on for a job where you are the most qualified candidate – are hard to measure in real time.
There are many great outlets that we love and respect, but ‘The North Star’ really is going to be a hard news outlet with reporters and journalists, White House correspondents. I think we’ll be hard news with some cultural commentary.
I see my role as sort of an informed outsider.
I would never crawl into a secret space to avoid the frustrating things.
Much of the foundation of our criminal justice system is derived from slave patrols and was created when African Americans could still be bought, sold, and traded.
When I travel and speak across the country, I often tell college students that we are making a significant mistake when we say to each other that this criminal justice of ours is broken. To say it’s broken would be to suggest that it was well designed and had good intentions from the start.
