Quotes about "Social Justice & Equality"

My own hope is that, as a human species, we are on a long journey of evolution toward increasingly more tolerant and nonviolent behavior. ”

I wouldn't want to make the same record over and over again or look the same or be the same. I think that's just human life in general, though. ”

I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war. ”

It might be expensive to make music lessons available. But it's even more costly to deal with human beings who have half their intellect and spirit left undeveloped. ”

The Soviet Union had only one party. You couldn't express yourself freely; you couldn't admit belief in God. And yet this terrible regime understood that human beings have to express themselves, through music, even at a bad level. All kids studied music automatically, just as they did maths or languages or sport. ”

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers. ”

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement. ”

There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the law review. There has been a history of discrimination. ”

What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset. ”

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future. ”