Pierre Trudeau Quotes

Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.

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

Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.

In a world of injustice there's going to be dreams of justice.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

A more just world is possible.

I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.

All over this world people are standing up for freedom.

There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.

Number one comes freedom first for my people and equality. And this is what I plan to do after I'm through fighting - working with nothing but the people, the little people in the alleys: the downtrodden people, going out and helping them with my image.

But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice.

Our party’s always been the place you can come to wherever there’s injustice. That’s what the Democratic Party’s for. That’s why it was born. That’s why it survives. So the poor and the downtrodden and the bended can have a place to turn.

We need to fight for the equal rights of citizens.

For sure, I think that's the mission in all life, whether it's basketball, being a doctor, building a company. I think we take social justice and the lessons we're learning now, that everybody is learning.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.

There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.

There are enormous opportunities to work for a world that is more free, peaceful and just.

We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick.

The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.

If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.

If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.

I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- 'social justice.' For that is what I have believed in and fought for.