Nadia Murad Quotes

If you want peace work for justice.

If you want peace, work for justice.

We want the world our children inherit to be defined by the values enshrined in the U.N. Charter: peace, justice, respect, human rights, tolerance, and solidarity.

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.

Social justice is the surest guarantor of peace in the world.

I believe Native Americans, women, and all of us deserve representation, and that we all need to fight with everything we have to make it so.

I am passionate about human rights.

Finally, let understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.

The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.

Let's continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.