Winnie Byanyima Quotes

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

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

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

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.

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

I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression. My address is like my shoes; it travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

We will have demonstrations until the injustices that have caused them are eliminated.

As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

There is no justice in the world unless we make it..

There's nothing wrong with a little agitation for what's right or what's fair.

When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.

Whatever I do, it will be fighting for social justice.

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.

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

Every fair-minded person holding a position of authority must support the few who have stood up against the injustice being perpetrated in the name of blasphemy.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

I just feel like if I really believe what Dr. King said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,' then I should be compelled to use my God-given platform to effect change.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

Injustice can never be stood for.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.