Mother Jones Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice.

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.

When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.

When things are not fair, I speak my mind.

World leaders and, particularly, Muslim religious leaders need to stand up and protect the oppressed.

Injustice has exhausted people but also pushed them to organize and fight back in very sophisticated ways.

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

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.

While I am furious about injustice, I do what I do, fighting against it, out of a place of love.

Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

It doesn't matter if I ever win another award or get to play another major jazz festival in America. I would rather not garner any of those things and speak honestly about the things that I see my people endure in this country and all over the world.

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

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

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

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.