Top 140 Christina Engela Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “While EQUALITY means no more ‘previously disadvantaged’ it also means that there should be no ‘currently disadvantaged’ to replace them.”

— Christina Engela

2. “If you ‘don’t do politics’, trust me – politics will do you.”

— Christina Engela

3. “Dominating others is not equality.”

— Christina Engela

4. “Separate but equal is not equal, but it sure is separate.”

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5. “Knowing who you are is half the peace of accepting yourself.”

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6. “Peace, shalom, salaam – to all – in our homes, in our streets, in our countries, on our world, and most importantly, in our hearts and minds – not just for one day of the year, or two, but for every day, and for every year, always.”

— Christina Engela

7. “16 days of activism? I don’t know about you folks, but I’m an activist every single day.”

— Christina Engela

8. “Religious extremism is fatal to those who don’t conform to its values, or remold or submit themselves to its ‘principles’. It craves control and power – and power is the one tool that enables it to wreak its characteristic havoc, destruction and cruelty upon those it chooses to label as scapegoats. Giving in to extremists enables them and empowers them – and worse, it encourages them.”

— Christina Engela

9. “There’s no point in arguing with an idiot – save for exposing their stupidity in their own words.”

— Christina Engela

10. “If you don’t follow Christ or love others in the way Christ said, and let yourself be bogged down instead with fearfulness, hatred, violence and the persecution of others – HOW can you call yourself a ‘Christian’?”

— Christina Engela

11. “As a South African I honestly cannot understand how people can’t see South Africa as a unique nation, untied by ties of history, bonds of suffering, victory, struggles, hope – and in more ways than I ever before thought possible – blood.”

— Christina Engela

12. “It is ironic that the only thing separating ‘friend’ from ‘fiend’ – is a single letter.”

— Christina Engela

13. “Churches need to realize that they are houses OF God – and that they are NOT God.”

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14. “Freedom isn’t hard to lose – but it’s a hard thing to win back once it’s been lost.”

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15. “Going to the extreme of inviting and welcoming people into your church in order to hear you condemn them or to know from your policy that you condemn them is not much better than bullying.”

— Christina Engela

16. “I can’t imagine why a media company views a law preventing the commission of hate speech as a restriction on media freedom, but it is probably similar to how some religious folk view hate speech as being essential to religious freedom.”

— Christina Engela

17. “Even when you’re down, there is still hope. No matter how bad things get and no matter how small a hope there is, anything is better than nothing, No matter how bad things get, they can always, ALWAYS get worse. Take my word on that.”

— Christina Engela

18. “Life is a two way street – and sometimes there are collisions.”

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19. “The very worst thing a parent or teacher or other care-giver can do, is to ignore bullying, to ignore the plight of a child being bullied, or trivialize or even blame a child for the bullying actions of others.”

— Christina Engela

20. “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 person’s life ever be ‘love’?”

— Christina Engela

21. “Some people do everything, some do something, many do nothing – which is bad enough – but the worst of the lot are those who break down what others have built.”

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22. “I believe most people are good, even deep down, even if you have to dig a little – although some people can tempt one to pick up a shovel and actually put that to the test.”

— Christina Engela

23. “Willful ignorance is something to be ashamed of, not proud.”

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24. “Beauty... Is what you are after a lifetime of struggle in the face of hostility, surviving, and standing scarred and unafraid, triumphant before your enemies.”

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25. “What would Jesus do? One thing is obvious, if there is one thing Jesus would NOT do – is to behave like his followers.”

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26. “Documentary evidence says where there is smoke there is fire, be it holy smoke or otherwise.”

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27. “What is your talent? What are your interests? What resources do you have at your disposal? What can you do? What would you like to do? What can you do? You could apply your outrage to activism. Get involved. Do something.”

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28. “If all people were to be judged by ‘right and wrong’, nobody would be wholly right or wholly wrong – for have not all people ‘sinned and fallen from the glory of God’? It seems more than a little unfair that some folks with at least as much ‘sin’ themselves as any gay or trans person, like to jump up and down and point fingers at other people.”

— Christina Engela

29. “Those who say ‘it’s just an animal’ are really saying more about themselves than they realize.”

— Christina Engela

30. “We are told that religion says: ‘God gave us brains’ – and then they also quickly add: ‘-but God doesn’t want us to use them’. Ridiculous.”

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31. “Nationalism is what makes some people think they are better than others and just as often inspires delusions of superiority.”

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32. “Everybody is unique and different. Nobody is the same as anyone else. there is no ‘normal’ – it is a lie taught to us by a system so flawed that it is threatened by the awesome diversity of nature.”

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33. “They tell us variety is the spice of life – and yet diversity terrifies them.”

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34. “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.”

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35. “Sorry to disappoint you, parents – but when your kids come out as gay, bi or transgender, it is not about you.”

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36. “If God made gay people, then did God not intend them to be gay? Did the Potter’s hand slip?”

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37. “The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so much a final frontier as an ultimate frontier; the ultimate frontier – as wide as it is deep. Stars shine coldly in the unimaginable blackness. Out of the darkness, a tiny speck caught the distant light of stars – a tiny gray speck that, as it moved, seemed to grow larger, catching the light just so until it revealed itself to be a ship.”

— Christina Engela

38. “Why do I dislike nationalism? First it starts with ‘birds of a feather flock together’ and it gradually becomes more a case of ‘my dog is better than your dog’ – with knives in it...”

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39. “It would seem that the right to equality and human rights is far more an exclusive thing than an inclusive thing.”

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40. “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.”

— Christina Engela

41. “You cannot defend human rights without fighting religious fanatics – regardless of one’s own religious experience – it is unavoidable. Why? Because they are the ones who take issue with how other people live their lives instead of minding their own business.”

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42. “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.”

— Christina Engela

43. “In the process of helping others, I helped myself. In acting out of my own brokeness I became whole again. It’s the kind of strength and determination you find when you have hit rock bottom and you realize you could die right now – and want to, but realize that even death won’t make the difference you were hoping for.”

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44. “Interestingly enough, every time I corner a fanatic with scientific facts which they cannot argue or disprove, they either dismiss me as ‘anti-God’ and a ‘secular humanist’ or they start spouting reams of misapplied and irrelevant ‘scripture’ at me, like good little sheeple and like that will in any way, shape or form prove anything... Which just proves to me that common sense and actual reason doesn’t come into it. Only hatred.”

— Christina Engela

45. “Just saying “I love you” can mean the difference between nothing and everything. Some people say it while they stab the person they say it to – some say it to the one holding the knife.”

— Christina Engela

46. “Some children are threatened with loss of privileges such as money, cell phones, cars or even eviction from home if they do not ‘toe-the-line’ and ‘act straight’. I don’t think parents who do such things consider for a moment the kind of emotional damage they are doing to their children – or thinking beyond their own feelings about the situation – which will not change or go away simply because of their denial.”

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47. “How anyone can vote to support any form of fascism, knowing history, is beyond me – which leads me to draw the conclusion that either the people who voted to support it don’t know what they are doing – or that they know exactly what they are doing.”

— Christina Engela

48. “South Africa is the only country where an overwhelming majority in complete political control is apparently so threatened by a tiny minority that they need racist affirmative action policies to protect the majority by legislatively excluding the minority totally from the job market.”

— Christina Engela

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

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50. “It seems to me that those who claim to be ‘true’ and ‘bible believing’ Christians and yet spend all their time and energy spreading unhappiness and hatred for others – and are themselves consumed by it – are by the very definition of the term – false prophets.”

— Christina Engela