Adam Rippon Quotes

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.

One of the things that I've always not liked is the modern players have always concentrated on dancing in the end zone and BSing when serious things were going on in this country that needed to be changed. So my opinion is that when these young people stand up and risk their careers, that's a good sign for everything and all of us.

When things are not fair, I speak my mind.

I'm not pretending I can change the world, or to be an expert on social and political affairs. But I certainly have a right to say when something is wrong.

When I see a blatant injustice, I can't keep quiet. I've been that way since I was a little kid.

You're starting to see more and more athletes recognizing their reach and how much leverage and power that they have in their celebrity and in their platform. And more and more guys are trying to use that leverage to better their communities, to better this country and are speaking out on injustice.

It is important to keep protesting, to keep forcing a conversation in the public arena. In any case, when you know what the right thing to do is, or that something must be said, it can be immoral and dangerous not to act.

It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.

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

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.

When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.

Rarely do celebrities and actors speak up for what they believe in.

No one who passively endures an injustice against himself has the material in him to struggle for the rights of others. The one who patiently forbears becomes an accessory to the injustice done to others. He who resists the injustice which he himself meets can open up the way to a higher right for others.

I think it's so important as an artist to stand up for what you believe in, and I think that if equal rights is something that you really believe in, and you have a voice that people listen to, and you need to share that - I think that's really important.

I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

The purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have no influence.

I'm not quite sure precisely when social and political activism became a visible brand of my DNA, but it seems to me that I was born into it. It is hard to be born into the experience in the world of poverty and not develop some instinct for survival and resistance to those things that oppress you.

It's my job, with the position of power that I'm in and being able to be on television, I'm supposed to stand up for the people who can't stand up for themselves.

It's so important to get your voice heard, get out there, support what you believe in and what you wanna fight for.

I feel like I'm always on the right side of wrong and trying to shout out for the underdog.

I don't think rappers have a responsibility, but for me, I gotta say something. I can't just look at injustice and keep quiet.

I hope my work inspires people to speak and to stand up together to make change. Big or small, it doesn't matter.

People don't really understand how important our voices are. I think there's a lot of athletes that don't use their power that really should.