Claire Denis Quotes

We're a migrant nation made up of people who've been torn out of other worlds, and you'd think we would have some compassion.

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

It is important to me to keep fighting for the rights of those who cannot.

I like movies that resonate, that give voice to the voiceless.

Oppressed strangers in our land…

We are all Jews now.

You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt.

We need more leaders speaking up for minority groups who have been marginalized and attacked.

I don't believe that the fight for trans rights or African American rights is different from the fight against war, or the fight for refugees.

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 grew up in a refugee camp. Thirty years. This so-called human-rights world didn't ask me what was happening for me to be there 30 years.

There are people in our country, in our communities who are being marginalized and discriminated against every single day. I fight for them.

I began using the #smallacts hashtag on Twitter shortly after the 2016 election as a way to resist. To resist the intolerance growing in our nation, to resist an upcoming administration that I believe threatens to pull us backward and strip rights from those already marginalized.

I don't like laughing at people unless they're in a privileged position or if they're in authority. If it's poor people or people who live on the outskirts or on the margins, or the underdog, I'd rather be laughing with them.

I'm a huge advocate for human rights and cultural rights. I stand up for minorities and will always continue to do so.

I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop; it stands with the 'disposable' so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.

Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.

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.

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

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.

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

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.

Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.