#neutralit

The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either. ↗

— Edward Grey

#asks #away #bargain #belgium #chancellor

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#courage #dissent #moral-courage #neutrality #protest

Why should we cherish “objectivity”, as if ideas were innocent, as if they don’t serve one interest or another? Surely, we want to be objective if that means telling the truth as we see it, not concealing information that may be embarrassing to our point of view. But we don’t want to be objective if it means pretending that ideas don’t play a part in the social struggles of our time, that we don’t take sides in those struggles. Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed in certain ways, neutrality means accepting the way things are now. It is a world of clashing interests – war against peace, nationalism against internationalism, equality against greed, and democracy against elitism – and it seems to me both impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#objectivity #equality

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#hell #morality #neutrality #hell

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#appreciate #chosen #elephant #foot #injustice

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#neutrality #sin #than #times

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices. ↗

— Bill Bradley

#american #american tradition #be true #beliefs #governmental

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality. ↗

— Tom C. Clark

#committed #firmly #man #neutrality #position

I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#assertion #coming #generation #god #honest

The problem is neutrality ends in poverty, neutrality ends in choices that hurt people's lives. This administration is deliberately telling organizations that are there to help young girls make good choices, not to tell them what the good choice is. That is absolutely unconscionable. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#administration #choice #choices #deliberately #ends