Deeyah Khan Quotes

In community people remain essentially united in spite of all separating factors, while in society they are essentially separated in spite of all uniting factors.

In my view - which could be wrong, but it is my field - there is no better formula for social instability than to divide a society between two ascribed characteristics that are seen as opposite.

Well you know, all law is about injustice.

I think that we're more united than the media would care to admit. We're not as divided as the perception would relay - not in the United States, not anywhere, really, in the world.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

Society is better off without certain people.

Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.

People always want to think that because you're not from a certain circumstance, you can't relate. That's ridiculous.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel. I had never experienced that in America - never in school, nowhere.

I'm a product of a fragmented world.

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.

People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.

I think in our society we too often choose the people we associate with based on our own hasty judgments.

Untouchables are treated as if less than beasts …. Untouchability for me is more insufferable than British rule. If Hinduism hugs Untouchability, then Hinduism is dead and gone.

And Justice for Some

The first requisite for the progress of a nation is the brotherhood and unity amongst sections of the society.

Society is one word, but many things.

Social injustice still needs to be denounced and fought. [In the post-communist era.]

The Annual Shame

Unfortunately … trust is becoming yet another casualty of our country’s staggering inequality: As the gap between Americans widens, the bonds that hold society together weaken.