Wangari Maathai Quotes

The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.

In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.

We are never assured of justice without a fight.

[ Dalton Trumbo] always said he fought so many fights, all seemingly different, but all about the concepts of fairness and justice.

I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.

So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds.

Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power.

There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

I am going to fight for important things.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

Human rights are fundamental rights, they are the minimum, the very least we demand. Too often, they become the goal itself. What should be the minimum becomes the maximum - all we are supposed to expect - but human rights aren't enough. The goal is, and must always be, justice.

We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights.

I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.

A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer. It's the civil rights of our day. It's the issue of our day.

We believe that peace is hard-won, That sometimes it is necessary to fight for peace. But more than that, we believe that Justice is more important than peace.

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle....goa ts are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

Equality is never given, it is taken.

We’ve learned that it will take more than one generation to bring about change. The fight for civil rights has developed into a broader concern for human rights, and that encompasses a great many people and countries. Those of us who live in a democracy have a responsibility to be the voice for those whose voices are stilled.

We have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.

All over this world people are standing up for freedom.

The struggle of our people for freedom has progressed to the form where all of us must take a stand either for or against the freedom of our people You are either with Your People or against them. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle for influence, and we should use this good weapon as effectively as possible.

When you're fighting for civil rights, it's sometimes two steps forward and one step back. Civil rights are an evolution; and you have to bring people along.