Tag: Justice

Civilization Quotes

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry … The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.

  • Will Durant, The Story of Civilization

Human Rights Quotes

We must be the change we wish
to see in the world.

  • Mahatma Gandhi

 

The world is getting too small for both an Us and a Them. Us and Them have

become co-dependent, intertwined, fixed to one another. We have no

separate fates, but are bound together in one. And our fear of

one another is the only thing capable of our undoing.

  • Sam Killermann

 

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

  • Nelson Mandela, South African civil rights activist