Quotes by Christina Engela

Any religion which demands death for other people is itself worthy of nothing less than it expects for others. In fact, it is probably long overdue.

Rejecting people for who and what they are will not make you a better, more righteous or more moral person - than the other person, or even in your own right - in fact, if thats why youre doing it, it is far more likely to do the opposite.

The only way a society of diverse people can survive without tearing itself apart over differences in nature is by accepting that ALL people are different, and that no single one of us is more or less deserving of decent treatment, compassion, legal and ethical equality, justice, life, or love, than any other.

isnt lying supposed to be a sin? Or is it okay to lie when trying to make people you hate look bad?

Nationalism leads to all sorts of nasty things (even Nazi things) like fascism and war.

Peace with non-fundamentalists terrifies the fundamentalist because to them, being Christian doesnt mean just being good - it means being better than others. Being better that others means having to see them as enemies - and making war on them. The fundamentalist views not being allowed to make war on their enemies as oppression of their faith, or defeat.

How very like humans to pervert a message of love and peace to make it into an ideology of war and oppression to serve their own ends.

In my view, any government whose state is perpetually at war, and remains so in spite of initiatives to make peace, is incompetent and unfit and should resign.

What i know from history is this: Those who do not appreciate their freedom and arent prepared to protect it, will lose it.

Freedom is being whole on my own and not needing somebody else to complete me.

Because freedom and liberty and equality are as vital as breath, we only notice their absence when we are left gasping when the colors of diversity and individual liberty are drained from the world around us.

It seems that the price of having freedom is having to constantly fight to keep it.

Freedom isnt hard to lose - but its a hard thing to win back once its been lost.

Is human dignity and human life so cheap that the rights protecting it can be traded away to appease the appetite for intimidation and prejudice of a vicious and self-centered group - for whatever reason, power, politics, nationalism, or unity?

It seems to me that wherever religion and politics mix in one body, fascist values - and not family values - rear their ugly head.

If you dont do politics , trust me - politics will do you.

If you dont do politics, trust me - politics will do you.

The patriarchy longs for the days when men were men and women were oppressed, subservient - and they can see no wrong in it. It justifies its former power and lust to hold on to it - and if possible, to regain it by quoting fundamentalist and radical religion and tradition and calling it love. Some love. How can oppression and power over another persons life ever be love?

I can understand backward patriarchal reasoning coming from a male, but from a woman - and of all people, a leader of women? It says something profound about leadership - and, if anything - what it says about followers is not very flattering at all.

Right now though, there is little that concerns me more than the impending assault on the human rights and equality of women and the pink community in South Africa. Right now there are events afoot in this country which justify my concern.