Hjalmar Schacht Quotes

This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not.

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

The word of the oldest of the old of our peoples didn't stop. It spoke the truth, saying that our feet couldn't walk alone, that our history of pain and shame was repeated and multiplied in the flesh and blood of the brothers and sisters of other lands and skies.

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.

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

I pity the poor in bondage that have none to help them: that is why I am here; not to gratify any personal animosity, revenge or vindictive spirit. It is my sympathy with the oppressed and the wronged, that are as good as you and as precious in the sight of God.

One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn't live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they've been brutalized for so long.

I have in my bones, and in my blood, the knowledge that you have to help the people who are persecuted.

I tend to side with people who are considered the underdog. I have empathy.

We need to realize that we should be on the side of any human being who is oppressed.

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.

As the blowback against those who stand up for what is right thickens, I feel it is necessary to push forward with a relentless determination.

Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, why don't the adults around here just say something? Say it so they know we don't accept segregation? I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there's no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.'

Oxfam is part of a global movement for social justice. We mainly work to fight for economic and social rights for people without a voice or people who are oppressed.

To insist that no one can support the interests of the aam aadmi without being one himself is like saying that no man can support women's rights.

Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.

I have a voice, and I'm trying to use it to be the voice for all the innocent people who don't have one.

I've always taken pride in relating to the underdog or little guy or gal.

We need to, as a society, collectively, unequivocally denounce any time innocent lives are lost.

Empathy should not be contingent on our proximity to suffering or the likelihood of it happening to us. Rather, it should stem from a disdain that suffering is happening at all.

I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.

The TED talk I gave, that gave me another character I didn't know about. I'm not saying the mind of a hero, but a kind of responsibility. Every word I'm speaking, it's not from myself. I'm speaking for and representing the people of communist North Korea.

I will never apologize for standing up against oppression and injustice in Israel or anywhere else.