Matt Gonzalez Quotes

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who is sensitive to right and wrong. But I would bet that children would tattle even if they could do so only anonymously. They would do it just to have justice done.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I will hold up America to the lightning scorn of moral indignation. In doing this, I shall feel myself discharging the duty of a true patriot; for he is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins.

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.

Silence is complicity. I believe that.

Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.

When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don't just shut up and say it's none of my business.

I don't want to be that person who's looking squarely at the shortcomings in the process right where I sit and then choose to walk away and do nothing.

If you strongly believe something is wrong, you must speak up and stand by what you say.

The thing is, if nobody points out what's wrong, then nothing will ever be done about it.

History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.

One should never ignore or be afraid of reporting or calling out a harasser. There is no shame in doing so.

To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.

It's fine to criticize somebody else's crimes and misdeeds, but you don't talk about your own. The only exception is a country that is defeated. And even that is rather nuanced.