Janet Suzman Quotes

We are all Jews now.

The dream of diversity is like the dream of equality. Both are based on ideals we celebrate even as we undermine them daily.

I think everybody should have the same anger towards the injustice that's happening and the hatred that's happening, and just fight it with love and compassion.

As American Jews and descendants of immigrants, we never forget where our families came from or what members of our community experienced. Because we remember, we look out for those who are freeing persecution, oppression, and danger.

I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

The Trail of Tears should teach all of us the importance of respect for others who are different from ourselves and compassion for those who have difficulties.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

Do not give voice to bigotry.

The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.

Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't bear bad behaviour to other people. I cannot bear it that people are mean to people who can't help what they are.

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it. And while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Always be capable of feeling … any injustice committed against anyone anywhere in the world.

In our struggle against apartheid, the great supporters were Jewish people. They almost instinctively had to be on the side of the disenfranchised, of the voiceless ones, fighting injustice, oppression and evil.

Do not allow your hatred of a people to incite you not to act equitably.

People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.

Denying any person their humanity is a game we should all stop playing.

Since I was a teenager I have been standing up to antisemitism, racism and discrimination in all its forms.

You grow up and recognize that in any educated secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognize in yourself, and challenge yourself, that if you see racism or homophobia or misogyny in a secular society, as a member of that society, you should challenge it. You owe it to the betterment of society.

We need to, as a society, collectively, unequivocally denounce any time innocent lives are lost.