Quotes about "Social Justice & Equality"

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. ”

The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet dance flirtation and embrace, upon which the zoological survival of the human species has always been predicated. ”

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching. ”

When someone's really good at encapsulating human emotion and putting it out in a form that can reach a variety of people, that's going to have a big effect when he's no longer there. ”

No, she is right up there with the best I've worked with. I was very impressed with her, I really was. ”

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human. ”

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition. ”

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. ”

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it. ”

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. ”