Eve Ensler Quotes

I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

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.

Those who protest at injustice are people of true merit.

We were fighting for a just cause and the whole world was not paying attention.

I'm an activist and advocate. I have empathy. It is hard to ignore causes.

My grandfather was a justice fighter. I go to Russia and I find worse injustice than he had ever discovered. My task was investing people's money. But this was far beyond that. I became this sort of crusader.

We are living in tumultuous times, and our focus should be fighting against the oppression and injustices that are against us - not battling those who are on the same side of seeking justice and peace.

While I am furious about injustice, I do what I do, fighting against it, out of a place of love.

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

It is better to protest than to accept injustice.

Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign are standing up and fighting the important fights that have to be fought.

While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight While there is a drunkard left, While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!

I feel so proud to see young people standing up against the injustice to stand up and say that "All lives matter." They're following in the footsteps of those who came before them.

If some black man go out and start something, a riot or something or, I'm not going to jump in it and get killed because he's gone out and started something I don't believe in what he's fighting for or his approach.

it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.

It is my hope that people today will see that, in another time, in another period, when we saw the need for people to speak up, to organize, to mobilize, and to do something about injustice, we came together.

My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.

One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little.

I've spent fifteen years of my life fighting for our right to be free and make love whenever, wherever... And you're telling me that all those years of what being gay stood for is wrong... and I'm a murderer. We have been so oppressed! Don't you remember how it was? Can't you see how important it is for us to love openly, without hiding and without guilt?

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.