Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To listen to the poor is an exercise of great discipline, but such listening surely is what is required if charity is not to become a hatred of the poor for being poor.

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

I guess what I'd like to say is that people in Sierra Leone are human beings, just like Americans. They want to send their kids to school; they want to live in peace; they want to have their basic rights of life just like everyone else. I think we all owe an obligation to support people who want to do that.

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

Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people ... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.

While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it. And while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing.

No man can be fully free while his neighbor is not.

Am I not a man and a brother?

In all the Arab countries I have been in, the people have said that they were not demonstrating for food. They wanted dignity.

The vision of Israel's prophets became the pillar of fire leading the struggle in support of the weak and the different towards equality.

Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.

I do believe in humanism, and I believe that we should treat each other with respect and care and look after each other. All human beings should have an equal chance to survive in society, and inequality is a big problem in society.

You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else's freedom and not worry about your own.

I think a big part of my faith teachings is to work together towards equality: that we're all created equal, and under the eyes of God, we all have a right to freedom and to access our rights equally.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have avote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling.

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

Jesus' life and words are a challenge at the same time that they are Good News. They are a challenge to those of us who are poor and oppressed. By His life He is calling us to give ourselves to others, to sacrifice for those who suffer, to share our lives with our brothers and sisters who are also oppressed. He is calling us to "hunger and thirst after justice" in the same way that we hunger and thirst after food and water: that is, by putting our yearning into practice.