Katherine Ryan Quotes

Katie Otto goes after stuff she doesn't feel is right, and she stands up for it. I do that too, just kind of in a slightly kinder way because I'm from the South.

When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.

I like to write stories where young people have a strong feeling about something being fair or unfair, right or wrong, cruel or kind, and they act on the basis of that - often in the face of the prevailing limits of behaviour.

I think of my films as not necessarily political but more moral. Between my father, my stepfather, and my mother - they all felt pretty passionately about the importance of standing up and doing the right thing, and none of them were suck-ups. What motivates me is usually abuse of power.

When things are not fair, I speak my mind.

I was obsessed with the character Atticus Finch. I really liked the idea of having a voice for the voiceless, getting someone justice against the odds. That really resonated with me.

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.

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

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

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

I won't let anybody get away with anything just because he is little.

If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me - I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I - I might want to march out on that.

When I see something messed up, I'm going to challenge it.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

Fighting for what is right is not always popular but is always necessary.

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.

I believe in honesty and integrity, having a belief system that you've thought through and then stick to. I believe in being creative and contributing, and I believe in taking a stand against injustice that you encounter in everyday life and not being idle in that respect.

When I see something wrong, I speak up.

When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don't just shut up and say it's none of my business.

Given this platform of being an Olympic athlete, I think it's really important that we stand up for what we believe in, and we speak out against things that we think are wrong and injust.

If we won't fight injustice wherever we see it, then we are not safe from suffering injustice ourselves.

I was always a champion of the minority, of the underdog.

When I see a blatant injustice, I can't keep quiet. I've been that way since I was a little kid.

I try not to cancel people. But at some point, we got to stand up and say, hey, right is right, wrong is wrong.

I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.