Ann Nocenti Quotes

Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.

I used to sort of consider myself a feminist, an environmentalist, and I still have some of that in me, but I've done so many offensive comedies, I'm now worn down to a little nub of... nub of an activist.

The Labour party is mainly full of amazing people who care so much about equality and social justice they are probably a bit of a bore at a family do.

I wasn't born into one of the two main parties, but both my parents had a strong sense of social justice.

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.

When you look at a guy like a Jay-Z or look at a guy like a Nas, you don't necessarily qualify them as conscious rap purely, although they are extremely conscious of the social inequities that prevail.

I think to many people the term 'activist film' implies a film with a single point of view - something designed to provoke outrage and urge action on a particular issue - sort of the film equivalent of a rally. 'If a Tree Falls' is not that kind of film.

Dad was a great advocate for social justice and a very quiet advocate of the essential Labor values.

I'm from a very politically and socially conscious family. My mother always made a point of making us look at what was going on around us and take stock of our part in it.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.

The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

We need to maintain law and order. We need to maintain peace in the world. We need to protect the environment. We need to have some degree of social justice, equality of opportunity. The markets are not designed to take care of those needs. That's a political process.

It is right to be forward in the defense of the poor; no system that is not just as between rich and poor can hope to survive.

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.

In my late 20s, I realized that I had a very clear social conscience and strong opinions about things like diversity, equality, and education, and while I tried to become more politically literate, I just couldn't catch on. It felt like I had walked into a movie that had already started, and no one would explain what had happened.

I am pretty heavy into causes. I'm an active Democrat, I boycott grapes, and I work for prison reform.

We need to have a clear moral vision for both our foreign policy, and economic policy and policy on racial justice.

Whatever I do, it will be fighting for social justice.

Watching President Obama, for the first time in my life, one of us was running for president. He seemed like one of us - and I got behind him, and I got excited about his message and what he continues to say he's going to do. The day he was elected president, Prop 8 happened. It was this bizarre dichotomy - world history - good and bad.

I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.

There are beautiful songs people write about love and dancing. But it's political issues that should be addressed.

I went into criminal justice because I want to learn more about the law, about what's going on in this world, and be a mentor to kids from where I'm from.