376 quotes found
“The religious right sees every group trying to achieve equality with them as a threat, because if they become equal to them, THEY won't be able to abuse their human rights anymore. Giving other peo...”
“Religious extremism is fatal to those who don't conform to its values, or remold or submit themselves to its 'principles'. It craves control and power - and power is the one tool that enables it to...”
“Is human dignity and human life so cheap that the rights protecting it can be traded away to appease the appetite for intimidation and prejudice of a vicious and self-centered group - for whatever ...”
“It seems to me that wherever religion and politics mix in one body, fascist values - and not 'family values' - rear their ugly head.”
“If you 'don't do politics' , trust me - politics will do you.”
“If you 'don't do politics', trust me - politics will do you.”
“So, show the world, make it seeYou are you, and I am me.”
“In the Black Palace, in the capital city below, the man know as the Patron Martel the Mighty, ruler of this dark world - had packed his coffers and was now also, presumably, making good his escape...”
“Start thinking for yourself, ask 'why?' and even venture to say 'why should I?' and pretty soon you will have half the world at your throat for being a 'trouble maker'.”
“Is there any good left in the world/ And if there is, can you still find it in the places that matter? Why is it that the only places i see it now, is in the graves of the victims, and the tears of...”
“There are enough real enemies and threats in the world without having to invent imaginary ones.”
“When facts are misrepresented in order to serve an opinion or to promote it aggressively - especially an opinion which demonstrably results in people being victimized, persecuted, and their lives d...”
“In the process of helping others, I helped myself. In acting out of my own brokeness I became whole again. It's the kind of strength and determination you find when you have hit rock bottom and you...”
“Hes dying! Doctor Cove, one of the ships two medical officers told me, looking at his med-scanner as he kneeled at the broken body of the only living Corsair on the black ship. I remember the look ...”
“Only the living can learn from their mistakes.”
“The patriarchy longs for the days 'when men were men' and women were oppressed, subservient - and they can see no wrong in it. It justifies its former power and lust to hold on to it - and if possi...”
“I can understand backward patriarchal reasoning coming from a male, but from a woman - and of all people, a leader of women? It says something profound about leadership - and, if anything - what it...”
“Right now though, there is little that concerns me more than the impending assault on the human rights and equality of women and the pink community in South Africa. Right now there are events afoot...”
“Beauty... Is what you are after a lifetime of struggle in the face of hostility, surviving, and standing scarred and unafraid, triumphant before your enemies.”
“If we refuse to accept knowledge because it frightens us, we will never grow. If we give in to fear, we will never outgrow hatred”
