Gary Coleman Quotes

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.

I refuse to be silenced.

I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.

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.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact or can open an ear to the cold voice of doubt.

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.

It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.

Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.

I love seeing young people take a stance and not be afraid to say how they feel, and protest when they feel things are wrong or unjust.

I refuse to be one of those people who watches injustices yet does nothing.

I think it's so important for somebody like me to stand up for the things I believe in and speak up on things I don't think are right.

If we are not actively fighting against regressive ideologies, we are contributing to making them grow.

I'm not a docile, complacent person when it comes to racial aggressions.

I've never seen somebody get more flak than Colin Kaepernick for silently and nonviolently protesting and standing up for something he believes, and something that obviously is an actual problem.

Take a stand for what's right. Raise a ruckus and make a change. You may not always be popular, but you'll be part of something larger and bigger and greater than yourself. Besides, making history is extremely cool.

The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to change it. That's never been impossible and never been easy.

As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.

To be courageous is to be a voice for the voiceless

We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.

There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.