“In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.”
"If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions."
- Angela Davis
Awareness
"In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist."
- Angela Davis
Awareness
"Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other."
- Angela Davis
Awareness
"I think there is a connection between, and I can’t go further than this, the way we treat animals and the way we treat people who are at the bottom of the hierarchy. Look at the ways in which people who commit such violence on other human beings have often learned how to enjoy that by enacting violence on animals."
- Angela Davis
Compassion
"We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be."
- Angela Davis
Hope
"What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man."
Morality
"Whether a human being is good or bad, right or wrong, can only be determined based on circumstances."
Morality
"Always let your conscience be your guide."
- Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio
Morality
"To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests."
- Matthew Scully
Morality
"When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music."
- Ellen G. White
Morality