Clarence Darrow Quotes

I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression. My address is like my shoes; it travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

We will have demonstrations until the injustices that have caused them are eliminated.

It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

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

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.

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.'

The function of a progressive is to keep on protesting until things get so bad that a reactionary demands reform.

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 am not the least bit surprised that injustice persists. I'm also not surprised that resistance to injustice persists.

I grew up thinking the most decent job to do was to fight injustice.

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

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

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.

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

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

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.

For we went, changing our country more often than our shoes In the class war, despairing When there was only injustice and no resistance

The only weapon I have is my microphone and my unmistakable faith as a militant for change, veritable change.”

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stand up and protest.

Only force would produce social change.

Social change can be painful for all involved—oppressor and oppressed.