Grace Paley Quotes

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

[ Dalton Trumbo] always said he fought so many fights, all seemingly different, but all about the concepts of fairness and justice.

Whatever I do, it will be fighting for social justice.

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

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

We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.

We have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here.

Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change.

One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.

My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

We are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

No right dies so long as someone demands it.

People don't realize what's really going on in this country. There are a lot things that are going on that are unjust. People aren't being held accountable for. And that's something that needs to change. That's something that this country stands for: freedom, liberty and justice for all.

The pursuit of justice is all I have ever known.

You can't expect to go about change - especially change of this nature, when you talk about racial equality and justice - you can't expect to go about or engage in that without resistance, and so you're going to have some people who aren't on board.