I'm now on a journey to fulfill the wish, in my tiny capacity, of little African girls.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

We must continually work to obtain and preserve the right to vote and future votes of babies in the womb, their parents, the sick, the elderly, the poor, all Americans.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there's no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.

The hatred and contempt for men, women and children that was manifested in the Shoah was a crime against God and against humanity.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third World meet. But the thing that I like the most about the metaphor is that it can be scaled to suit almost any scenario.

sustainable' justice Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã¢â‚¬œ that is, a corporate habit of relation that allows a community to believe that the security of its members does not depend entirely on contingent relations of power at any given moment.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.