Yuri Kochiyama Quotes

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.

Keep calling out injustices around you.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

I'm very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.

… injustice breeds injustice

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

How can you stand for the national anthem of a nation that preaches and propagates, 'freedom and justice for all,' that is so unjust to so many of the people living there?

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Regardless of how much media coverage will be received, talking and raising awareness about social injustice isn't enough.

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

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

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

Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

Injustice can never be stood for.

I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

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

Well you know, all law is about injustice.

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.