Quotes about "Social Justice & Equality"

Because of the Lebanese civil war, I had a scattered childhood. I had to build my own connections to each country we moved to. ”

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex. ”

The more you learn about someone, how could you not want to protect them and their rights? The more you learn about a culture or a certain identity, it's hard to not feel empathy. ”

While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument. ”

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts. ”

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence. ”

You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time. ”

One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know. ”

Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value. ”

Everyone in the street where I grew up was given the same message: You can be anything; you can do anything. That wasn't extraordinary; that was ordinary for us. My folks didn't believe in black exceptionalism. There's nothing exceptional about 'You can have that, too' - except when it comes to justice. You can't have that. ”