Joseph Cannon Quotes

I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

I demand simple justice. I am not here as beggar. I do not care so far as I am personally concerned whether you give me a seat or not. I will go back to my people and come here again.

When there is oppression, the only self-respecting thing is to rise and say this shall cease today, because my right is justice. If you are stronger, you have to help the weaker boy or girl both in play and in the work.

Discrimination will impair democracy.

Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.

I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality.

I hate the unfairness of injustice. Anybody who thinks they are better than others or 'chosen' or feel they have an entitlement... be it through monarchy, government or money. I think we are all born the same. We are entitled to an equal shot at life.

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.

Regardless of who I am, racism against anyone, anywhere should be appalling to everyone, everywhere.

I don't really have a political agenda, I just like things to be fair - I get angered by pomposity and privilege.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.

For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane.

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

I am a man more sinned against than sinning

When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

America stands for freedom, liberty and justice for all. And it's not happening for all right now.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.