Quotes about "Social Justice & Equality"

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late. ”

Africa Rising is as much about improving standards of governance as it is about an increasingly confident youths and civil society. It is also about businessmen and women who are stepping beyond national borders and going global. ”

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet. ”

I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit. ”

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet. ”

I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics. ”

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers. ”

We started the peace process on the basis of land for peace and on the basis of U.N. resolution 242 and 338,1 as well as other international decisions on achieving the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people. ”

I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war. ”

My dad was a brilliant civil engineer. My parents later divorced, but we lived in Abu Dhabi, Greece, Kuwait. ”