David Hackworth Quotes

When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don't just shut up and say it's none of my business.

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to 'right' these 'wrongs.'

As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

Every fair-minded person holding a position of authority must support the few who have stood up against the injustice being perpetrated in the name of blasphemy.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.

There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

We will have demonstrations until the injustices that have caused them are eliminated.

I feel there are injustices in the world that I'll stand up for, and I think that it's important to realize that the world is filled with these kinds of issues.

When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.

Life remains the same for me. It's always been a battle against injustice and corruption. That battle goes on.

If we won't fight injustice wherever we see it, then we are not safe from suffering injustice ourselves.

I grew up thinking the most decent job to do was to fight injustice.

As I grew older and got into the late teens and early 20s, I wanted to be a voice of the people. You know, getting locked up all the time and going through so much oppression and seeing it all around myself, I wanted to be a voice for it.

We have to speak truth to power.

I refuse to be one of those people who watches injustices yet does nothing.

It's always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.

My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.

Every generation is confronted anew with the task not to look the other way when injustice occurs. ... Everyone is responsible for what he does and co-responsible for what he lets happen.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

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