“Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.” HumansReasonAgeSexCommunityRaceMoralRacismSpeciesDenyProtectionRejectsSexismOrientationMembershipSentient BeingsAgeismSpeciesism Author:Gary L. Francione
“the solution to racism lies in our ability to see its ubiquity but not to concede its inevitability. It lies in the collective and institutional power to make change, at least as much as with the individual will to change. It also lies in the absolute moral imperative to break the childish, deadly circularity of centuries of blindness to the shimmering brilliance of our common, ordinary humanity.” LyingHumanityIndividualAbilityCommonMoralBreakCenturyRacismSolutionsOrdinaryAbsolutesCollectivesBlindnessImperativesBrillianceInevitabilityAbility To SeeCircularityUbiquity Book:Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race Source: Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race
“Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go; dictatorship, not to go; racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society].” PeopleWantRememberYoungMoralTeachPlansRacismPrejudiceOppressionDictatorshipThirstyRacism And Prejudice Author:Elie Wiesel
“When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.” ProblemCultureSocialReligiousEducationMoralSeriousDrugRacismAddictionGapsDrug AddictionDrug AddictSocial ProblemsMoral Education Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan
“It wasn't the intention to do something important, or to even relate about social issues. The ground is so fertile in the justice world, dealing with the death penalty and the Innocence Project, for characters that have a moral ambiguity, which we were both attracted to. It's the idea that everybody has their reasons. Whatever their actions are, whether you agree with them or not, you can understand why they're feeling that way, in terms of racism or even the death penalty.” WorldWayImportantIdeasReasonCharacterFeelingsActionSocialTermJusticeMoralIssuesProjectsRacismAgreeIntentionRelateInnocencePenaltiesSocial IssuesDeath PenaltyAmbiguityFertileMoral Ambiguity Author:Richard LaGravenese
“Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.” BlackMoralRacismPolicePrisonComplexesInvisibleBrownDiscourseCatastropheSurveillanceGhettoPublic Discourse Author:Cornel West
“Humanity may destroy the possibilities for life on earth unless the freedom and power that we have acquired are channeled in new creative directions by a spiritual awareness and moral commitment that transcend nationalism, racism, sexism, religious sectarianism, anthropocentrism, and the dualism between human culture and nature. This is the great issue for the 1990s and the twenty-first century.” FirstsHumansMayEarthSpiritualHumanityCultureReligiousMoralCreativeIssuesCenturyAwarenessPossibilityRacismCommitmentTwentiesContemplationNationalismSexismSectarianismSpiritual AwarenessDualismAnthropocentrism Author:Steven Clark Rockefeller
“"Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word family and using it as a code for censorship the same way "states' rights" was used to disguise racism in the mid-sixties.” IfsWayStatesUsedMoralRightsRacismHatredCodeCensorshipSixtyDisguiseFuriousGood WordsPerfectly GoodBusybodiesStates Rights Author:John Waters
“The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil war, is now a point of pride for all Americans. We must never go back. There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country.” LongHas BeensWarCountryPastFormEvilRoomsMoralStruggleRightsLandExampleSourcePrideCitizensEqualRacismGloryCapacityHatredPresidentialCivil WarMinoritiesOur PastEqual RightsAnti SemitismTranscendingDisunityMoral Evil Author:Ronald Reagan
“White privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral outrage with no idea of how to move beyond them. It is often easier to deplore racism and its effects than to take responsibility for the privileges some of us receive as a result of it... Once we understand how white privilege operates, we can begin to take steps to dismantle it on both a personal and institutional level.” IdeasMovingNamesIndividualSidesWhiteResultsResponsibilityMoralEffectsDangerEasierRacismBasesGuiltPrivilegeNo IdeaTaking ResponsibilityOutrageWhite PrivilegeWallowingMoral Outrage Author:Paula Rothenberg
“Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage-the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterologic al traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry.” MenBodyFormPoliticalSocialMoralIntellectualRacismNotionInternalsSignificanceAlsChemistryTraitsPrimitiveLowestCollectivismLineageBody Chemistry Book:The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution Source: The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution