Bubba Wallace Quotes

We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.

Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

In the U.K., a lot of writers won't show up to support activist issues because they figure they're already repairing the world. I don't want to be one of those people.

I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.

The sight of preventable evil is painful ... he who preaches patience and reliance upon natural progress is thought callous.

If you see something that you feel is wrong in society, why not help out?

I'm not quite sure precisely when social and political activism became a visible brand of my DNA, but it seems to me that I was born into it. It is hard to be born into the experience in the world of poverty and not develop some instinct for survival and resistance to those things that oppress you.

If I choose to keep my opinions and my activism to myself, then I'm not effecting any change in my time here on Earth.

It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.

I think, in my own life, I'm pretty political. I think I have some very strong ideals, and I struggle a lot with it. I struggle a lot with feeling like, 'I have a platform; should I be saying more?'

I am used to experiencing so much trauma, that when I see it, I have to speak out. I don't think rappers have a responsibility, but if you don't say something or be silent or avoid it, I believe it shows your true real character to the world. It's like, if no one wants to rap about gentrification then I am going to fill that void!

As a human being, when I see things going on in my community, I feel compelled to do something, to say something.

I'm not one to go down that road to say I have some kind of social consciousness.

Music must awaken people to do their duty as citizens and act.

I will never shy away from social issues in my books - or in my everyday life.

You don't want political acts to become something you just have to do in order to look good.

I appreciate the fans who come out here, and they support us, but it's football. We're not saving lives. We're not police officers. We're not doctors. We're football players, first and foremost. If you want to stop watching the game because a guy feels strongly about a very serious topic that's going on in our society, then that's your choice.

We've been doing work outside of the anthem since the beginning. Before the anthem even started, players were involved in these types of social justice issues. The anthem protests or demonstrations just brought eyes and attention to it.

Actors are citizens like any other person in the country. People idolize them and follow their activities. So, our involvement in social services comes from this feeling of social commitment and responsibility. We don't do all this to be in the news.

If you have any platform and a voice, I think it's important to use it.

You're starting to see more and more athletes recognizing their reach and how much leverage and power that they have in their celebrity and in their platform. And more and more guys are trying to use that leverage to better their communities, to better this country and are speaking out on injustice.

It's not like I have campaigns, I don't want to be an activist or anything.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

A time comes when silence is betrayal.

Where are the young people today? Why are they allowing some of the things that are happening in their country? I am really upset about that. I feel that they are burying their heads in the sand of electronic games and television. They don't want to know. Maybe they realize that their yuppie parents who protested Vietnam have turned on their ideals and are now struggling to buy a Lexus or whatever. These kids don't know what to revolt against, so they just completely ignore it, which is a very frightening thing.