Tom Morello Quotes

We will have demonstrations until the injustices that have caused them are eliminated.

It's always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.

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

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

For we went, changing our country more often than our shoes In the class war, despairing When there was only injustice and no resistance

I feel there are injustices in the world that I'll stand up for, and I think that it's important to realize that the world is filled with these kinds of issues.

I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

I'm a perpetually mad person. I hate injustice. As far as I'm concerned, I'm living to fight injustice. I'm living to fight the goddamned thing. I'm too mad to sleep.

I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression. My address is like my shoes; it travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Rebellion is the necessary result of injustice. It may not always achieve its purpose, or be intended to do so, but a conviction of injustice endured must precede articulate rebellion. Nor is it always certain that injustice will be followed by rebellion – it would be very much better for the world if this was the case. But where the victims of aggression or custom are ignorant and disunited, the opportunities for reasoned and effective revolt are practically reduced to nothing…

I'll continue fighting as long as these social injustices exist.

He apologizes for injustice …. Belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions…. He should be unceasingly and firmly opposed.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

I can't help but believe that at some time in the not-too-distant future, there is going to be another movement to change these systemic conditions of poverty, injustice, and violence in people's lives. That is where we've got to go, and it is going to be a struggle.

My life has been varied, involving many jobs, but I have always been impatient with injustice.

As I grew older and got into the late teens and early 20s, I wanted to be a voice of the people. You know, getting locked up all the time and going through so much oppression and seeing it all around myself, I wanted to be a voice for it.

We are living in tumultuous times, and our focus should be fighting against the oppression and injustices that are against us - not battling those who are on the same side of seeking justice and peace.

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

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

We have to fight for what's right the same way the brothers and sisters that came before us did. The ultimate example, and there are many others, was The Stonewall Inn. They were pushed until they could take no more.

For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.