Charlize Theron Quotes

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.

Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.

The world no longer permits the stronger to kill the weaker, but it allows the wealthy to oppress the poor. Money is holier than man. Human life is less sacred than property. To save a dollar is regarded as a more necessary virtue than to save a human heart. Society cares more for fortune than for truth.

The struggle for equality is really a struggle for democracy, and that's why it's a struggle for all the population.

The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

America stands for freedom, liberty and justice for all. And it's not happening for all right now.

Equality is what does not exist among mortals.

There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.

[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

If you throw the baby away, that's garbage. But no, the heart's precious. You could get something, you could save a life. Well, you just threw away a baby but the heart's valuable. That's the horror and the terror and the hypocrisy that nobody can understand. We base communities on the idea of protecting children based on the sacrifice of adults. Adults work and die so that their next generation would grow and prosper.

We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time, my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Equality is a mortuary word.

I'm a human rights activist and it doesn't make any sense not to treat everybody the exact same way. It just doesn't make any sense, it's counter intuitive, it's inhuman and it has to stop.

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use my camera to speak for people who are unable to speak for themselves.

The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error.

There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must never adjust ourselves to racial segregation. We must never adjust ourselves to religious bigotry. We must never adjust ourselves to economic conditions that take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.