Human-rights-day Quotes

History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers bu...

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.

The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothin...

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impa...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out o...

The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more tha...

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or...

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from ...

Death wins nothing here,gnawing wings that amputate––then spread, lift up, fly.

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potent...

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.

If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelmi...

Diversity is an aspect of human existence that cannot be eradicated by terrorism or war or self-cons...

It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly...

In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace ...

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains eleva...

In an age of bombsguzzling blood, skylarks merge peacewith thought and action.

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers...

As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignoranc...

Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its...