The best Quotes by Carola Rackete

There are people who seriously think sea rescue activists like me rescue Black lives because we hate white people. Some white people feel personally threatened by the fact that human rights apply to everyone equally.

Human Rights

It's our "white" responsibility to make sure people who speak out about racism are safe at all times. This means ending structural racism in our societies, authorities and media.

Racism

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Men must be free to do what they believe. It is not our right to punish one for thinking what they do, no matter how much we disagree.

Assassin's Creed

Human Rights Freedom Opinions

Education is the most powerful weapon you can choose to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

Human Rights Education

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Isaac Newton

Human Rights Freedom Brücken

With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.

Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek - Season 4 Episode 21

Human Rights Freedom Censorship

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Thomas Jefferson in Declaration of Independence

Human Rights USA Famous Quotes Independence Day

To overthrow oppression has been sanctioned by humanity and is the highest aspiration of every free man.

Nelson Mandela

Human Rights Freedom Revolution

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.

Martin Luther King

Vision Tolerance Human Rights 1963 Famous Quotes

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

Kingsley Shacklebolt in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Human Rights

Our constitution includes this wonderful article 1: "Human dignity is inviolable." What we're experiencing every day: Aggression against Jews, aggression against immigrants, violence and hate speech - that's what we have to stand up against!

Angela Merkel (as Chancellor of Germany) - September 2019

Human Rights Racism Dignity German Constitution

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

George Washington

Human Rights Freedom Independence Day

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

Human Rights Freedom Safety

Know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.

Barack Obama (Inauguration Speech 2009)

Human Rights 2009

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

Aretha Franklin

Tolerance Human Rights Respect

People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Rosa Parks

Human Rights Racism

For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they have never been self-executing; that while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by His people here on Earth.

Barack Obama - Inauguration Speech, 21st January 2013

Human Rights Freedom Democracy 2013

Nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

Madeline Miller in The Song of Achilles

Racism

Nationalists are saying, "you're disrespecting our flag." Well, you know what else is disrespectful to our flag? Racism.

Steve Kerr - September 2017

Racism

God judges men by their hearts, not by the color of their skins.

Harriet Ann Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Tolerance Racism Skin

America promises equal opportunity to everyone, no matter who you are. You can go to a good school, get a great job, live in a great house. But non of that is possible without that white man's stamp of approval.

Colin Kaepernick in Colin in Black & White - Season 1 Episode 2

Racism

I have never really understood why in this country so many people look down on black people.

Lonnie Johnson

Racism

The greatest danger for all of us begins with forgetting. With no longer remembering what we inflict upon one another when we tolerate antisemitism and racism in our midst.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier - January 2021

Racism Holocaust Antisemitismus

Let's speak the truth: People are protesting because Black people have been treated as less than human in America. Because our country has never fully addressed the systemic racism that has plagued our country since its earliest days. It is the duty of every American to fix. In times like this, silence is complicity.

Kamala Harris - June 2020

Racism

It is not enough to be "not a racist". We have to be anti-racist!

Frank-Walter Steinmeier (as President of Germany) - June 2020

Racism

I stand with those who are calling out the ingrained racism and violence toward people of color in our country. We have had enough.

Michael Jordan - June 2020

Racism 2020 Death of George Floyd

I believe race is too heavy a burden to carry into the 21st century. It's time to lay it down. We all came here in different ships, but now we're all in the same boat.

John Lewis

Racism

We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.

Sargent Shriver

Racism

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

Sargent Shriver

Racism

We must acknowledge that issues like systemic racism, economic inequality, and the achievement gap are the result of manmade policies.

Ayanna Pressley

Humanity Economy Racism

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

William Butler Yeats

Foolishness Opinions Racism Conspiracy Theories

The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.

Chance The Rapper

Racism

I find racism disgusting! If I were younger, I would go into politics.

Astrid Lindgren

Tolerance Racism

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.

Rowan Atkinson

Religion Racism

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.

Rosa Parks

Racism

Apartheid is the rule of the gun and the hangman.

Nelson Mandela

Racism

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

China Hackers

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

I will do everything if confirmed as FBI director to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened.

Kash Patel - Januar 2025

The Epstein Files

Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.

James Comey

Smartphones

There are well over 250 victims, so we have to make sure that their identity is protected. Other than that, I think tomorrow you're gonna see some Epstein information being released by my office. What you're gonna see is a lot of flight-logs, a lot of names, a lot of information.

Pam Bondi - February 2025

The Epstein Files

The people of the FBI are sworn to protect both security and liberty. It isn't a question of conflict. We must care deeply about protecting liberty through due process of law, while also safeguarding the citizens we serve - in every investigation.

James Comey

FBI

It's sitting on my desk right now to review. The Trump administration is committed to truth and transparency.

Pam Bondi - February 2025

The Epstein Files

It's a very delicate subject but we should put everything out there and let the people decide it.

Mike Johnson - July 2025

The Epstein Files

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