Quotes about "Social Justice & Equality"

My whole right arm is tattooed in honor of 'Wizard of Oz.' ”

When countries with the worst possible human rights records sit on the UNHRC, seek to deflect attention from their own egregious human rights abuses and attempt to pass judgment on Israel - a country with a vibrant liberal democracy - the credibility of the UNHRC is further undermined, and the United States must not be silent. ”

It is both wrong and short-sighted to believe that we can better protect our national security interests by ignoring or sidelining human rights. ”

Promoting and protecting human rights internationally is not just a matter of principle or morality - doing so also serves our national security interests. ”

For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream. ”

The same tools we need to use to keep this country safe by bringing terrorists to justice, because I guarantee you, if they have the opportunity and the means, they will take American lives. ”

I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation. ”

I think many of the ideas that opened up in the '60s got implemented in the '70s and that certain minority voices that were not being heard in the '60s, like women and gay people, were being heard in the '70s. Black Civil Rights had also found its foothold, and those ideas were also very pertinent. ”

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery. ”

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. ”