Peter Tosh Quotes

Equal Rights

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

... equal responsibilities are less popular than equal rights.

You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.

I stand up for all rights.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

In a world of injustice there's going to be dreams of justice.

In this town [L.A], I guess it takes homosexuals to be discriminated against in order for someone to finally step UP and wanna do something.

As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.

How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?

Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.

I'm a human rights activist and it doesn't make any sense not to treat everybody the exact same way. It just doesn't make any sense, it's counter intuitive, it's inhuman and it has to stop.

I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

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!

We are a nation of minorities. In a nation of minorities, you can’t cherry-pick rights.

Rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

Our party’s always been the place you can come to wherever there’s injustice. That’s what the Democratic Party’s for. That’s why it was born. That’s why it survives. So the poor and the downtrodden and the bended can have a place to turn.

Equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens without distinction of color, sex or nationality.

We are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.