Srikumar Rao Quotes

If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me - I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I - I might want to march out on that.

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

We should not label people who speak up, because it should not be the exception - it should be the norm. When you see something wrong, you speak up.

I feel there are injustices in the world that I'll stand up for, and I think that it's important to realize that the world is filled with these kinds of issues.

I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.

If we won't fight injustice wherever we see it, then we are not safe from suffering injustice ourselves.

As I grew older and got into the late teens and early 20s, I wanted to be a voice of the people. You know, getting locked up all the time and going through so much oppression and seeing it all around myself, I wanted to be a voice for it.

I refuse to be one of those people who watches injustices yet does nothing.

We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

No one who passively endures an injustice against himself has the material in him to struggle for the rights of others. The one who patiently forbears becomes an accessory to the injustice done to others. He who resists the injustice which he himself meets can open up the way to a higher right for others.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

When I see something messed up, I'm going to challenge it.

Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.

There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

I'm a perpetually mad person. I hate injustice. As far as I'm concerned, I'm living to fight injustice. I'm living to fight the goddamned thing. I'm too mad to sleep.