Leonard Peltier Quotes

We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

There's no question but that the justice system sucks.

He apologizes for injustice …. Belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions…. He should be unceasingly and firmly opposed.

It's always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.

The civil rights movement was not a mirage… It was live and in living color.

I feel so proud to see young people standing up against the injustice to stand up and say that "All lives matter." They're following in the footsteps of those who came before them.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

I think justice is important because there are many injustices in the world and I hate injustice.

It is better to protest than to accept injustice.

Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

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

Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.

There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse.

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.

THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US.

I think social justice is important. I think it's not fair.

You can be as critical as you want of Black Lives Matter. I'm critical of him, too. But to say that they have caused shooting of police officers, I think is a bridge too far.

Well Lord, I'm still on the case. I'm still doing what Dr. King and Pops want me to do. I'm still on that freedom highway, and I'm going to walk on it until Dr. King's dream is realized.

They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

Both morally and practically, segregation is to me a basic injustice. Since I believe it to be so, I must attempt to remove it. There are three ways in which one can deal with an injustice. (a) One can accept it without protest. (b) On can seek to avoid it. (c) One can resist the injustice non-violently. To accept it is to perpetuate it.