Suzanne Collins Quotes

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

Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to 'right' these 'wrongs.'

There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

A calculated, malignant, devastating evil has arisen in our world, ... Civilization cannot ignore the wrongs that have been done. America will not tolerate their being repeated. Justice has a new mission, a new calling against an old evil.

If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.

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.

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

Put up a stubborn fight against any form of slavery and safeguard the basic human rights under any political system

Tell me not of rights; talk not of the property of the planter in his slaves! I deny the right--I acknowledge not the property! The principles, the feelings of our nature, rise in rebellion against it

I'll continue fighting as long as these social injustices exist.

If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

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.

I still remember, 40 years ago, when I was shackled and put in prison... Being an American citizen didn't mean a thing.

Human suffering is not, nor should it ever be, a political issue.

People should never be permitted to feel comfortable while trampling the rights of others.

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

I ask you and all the leaders of the world: Would you act differently, would you keep silent and do nothing if you were in our place? Would you not resist if you were allowed no rights in your own country because the color of your skin is different to that of the rulers, and if you were punished for even asking for equality? I appeal to you, and through you to all the countries of the world, to do everything you can to stop the coming tragedy. I appeal to you to save the lives of our leaders, to empty the prisons of all those who should never have been there.

Shall we longer bear these cruelties which have been heaped upon us for the last ten years in the face of heaven, and in open violation of the constitution and law of these United States and of this state? God forbid! I will not bear it. If they take away my rights, I will fight for them manfully and righteously until I am used up. We have done nothing against the rights of others.

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.

If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.