Quotes about "Social Justice & Equality"

A human being is not a machine. Especially when it comes to creating. ”

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal. ”

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past. ”

I think everyone is a hero in their own right. ”

I think a large part of being human centers on the state of being alone, and we try to mitigate that in so many ways. ”

I think, for women in particular, it's kind of like you're expected to get married, have a child, and then you get to be a person. But you don't need someone else - be it a spouse or child - to complete or validate your existence. Being human is enough and should be enough, and I hope that we all come to a point where we can accept that. ”

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). ”

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. ”

In reality, civil rights are more important than national rights. They're the content, the day-to-day: work, life. But people are sensitive to national rights. ”

Just as Jews in the U.S. joined Martin Luther King, I'm sure hundreds of thousands of Jews will join the struggle for civil equality in Israel. ”