Matt Taibbi Quotes

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.

Injustice drives me crazy!

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

Well, there's things that never will be right I know, And things need changin' everywhere you go

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.

I'll continue fighting as long as these social injustices exist.

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

I do feel infuriated by the things I perceive to be unfair.

Life's not fair, I guess.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

The truth about injustice always sounds outrageous.

We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

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.

The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.

I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

Discrimination is a disease.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.