Sun Ra Quotes

I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

War dehumanizes everyone.

If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism.

Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.

… musty deposits of 2000 years of inhumanity, intolerance and foulness.

What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor.

Once again the hopes of people of two nations are being smashed by weapons in the name of eliminating weapons. Let us abolish weapons of mass destruction at home. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction.

Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. The pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations

What poor people go through, it's amazing they don't do more violent things! If they'd just give you a little dignity, it might help you stand it better. They suffer no heat, no electricity, while you're working, but then you've got to face all the insults, too.

The amount of suffering I've seen is beyond belief. The amount of inequality is beyond belief.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

What causes terrorism is disrespect, a lack of justice, and poverty.

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

A nation that mistreats its own citizens is more likely to mistreat its neighbours.

I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.

The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.