Okky Madasari Quotes

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.

Liberty without equality is a name of noble sound and squalid result.

Can law, human law, change the nature of things? Can it turn darkness into light, or evil into good? By no means. Notwithstanding ten thousand laws, right is right, and wrong is wrong still. There must still remain an essential difference between justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy. … Who can reconcile this treatment of the Negroes, first and last, with either mercy or justice?

We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

How many years can some people exist Before they're allowed to be free?

The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it. Every man who comes to England is entitled to the protection of English law, whatever oppression he may heretofore have suffered, and whatever may be the colour of his skin.

We are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Is Justice to be established by subjecting half of mankind to the will of the other half? Justice, Sir, is blind to colors, and weighs in equal scales the rights of all men whether white or black…. An opportunity is now presented, if not to diminish, at least to prevent the growth of a sin that sits heavy on the soul of every one of us.

I hold no views which any conservative citizen might not entertain on slavery...trading slaves is against humanity, unjust, and impolitic.

Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.