Michael Moore Quotes

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

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

We protest to our last breath against the purveyors of hatred, cruelty and violence.

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.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

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!

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

I don't have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

I'm not a racist, and I'm not a murderer.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

Let the demonstrations continue and withdraw the policy. Let the Jews feel the people’s fury.

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.

Things are being done in Ireland which would disgrace the blackest annals of the lowest despotism in Europe.

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.

… musty deposits of 2000 years of inhumanity, intolerance and foulness.

The rights of human nature are deeply wounded by this infamous practice.