Enes Kanter Quotes

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.

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

World leaders and, particularly, Muslim religious leaders need to stand up and protect the oppressed.

Oxfam is part of a global movement for social justice. We mainly work to fight for economic and social rights for people without a voice or people who are oppressed.

I understand my mother and father and sister are in Turkey, but if I stop talking, who is going to speak for the thousands and thousands of innocent people in jail?

I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all.

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

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.

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!

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

I want to be the voice and the vision for the poor and the powerless.

We must stand up and do everything we can for the people who do not have a voice.

Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

I consider myself a social justice person.

We need someone who is going to stand up, speak up, and speak out for the people who need help, for the people who have been discriminated against.

When things are not fair, I speak my mind.

Where there are breaches of human rights, you need to speak out about it, no matter where it is.

I have in my bones, and in my blood, the knowledge that you have to help the people who are persecuted.

I'm an activist and advocate. I have empathy. It is hard to ignore causes.

Those that have a voice have to speak for those of us who are silenced.

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.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.