Quotes about "Social Justice & Equality"

After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party, had asked my people to take to the streets, the very existence of the federation would have been threatened. ”

In my real life, I'm a Black Lives Matter social justice activist, and so it was incredibly interesting to me to play somebody coming from the totally opposite side, whose beliefs are as deeply entrenched - as deeply felt, and given as much gravity, as I give my beliefs. ”

Capitalism in and of itself is based on the monetising of human labour, and the first evidence of that is slavery. And that has never changed. We are all participating in that. ”

What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition. ”

Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end. ”

The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish! ”

Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind. ”

There's no place for mob justice in Afghanistan. ”

My entire life has been guided by a sense of equality, equality for loved ones. ”

Afghanistan fortunately is one of the richest countries in terms of water, mineral resources, location and human capital. ”