Quotes about "Social Justice & Equality"

We're all humans. Any human can tell any human's story. I don't want to have this conversation about black film or white film anymore. I wanna have conversations about film. ”

Feeling angry is a universal human phenomenon. It is as basic as feeling hungry, lonely, loving, or tired. The capacity to feel angry and to respond in some way to that feeling is in us from birth. ”

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. ”

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. ”

All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition. ”

The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature. ”

We all resort to the ad hominem from time to time: in human affairs, it is difficult to avoid it, and probably not desirable. After all, our opponents are human. The proper use of an ad hominem argument, however, still requires evidence to back it up. ”

Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace. ”

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples. ”

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings. ”