Marcus Garvey Quotes

Injustice has exhausted people but also pushed them to organize and fight back in very sophisticated ways.

I feel so proud to see young people standing up against the injustice to stand up and say that "All lives matter." They're following in the footsteps of those who came before them.

I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.

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

There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who are archetypes in our society who have never held office and made a difference.

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.

We are on the threshold of a significant breakthrough, and the greatest weapon is the mass demonstration.

I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the way. To find a way to get in trouble. Good trouble, necessary trouble.

I grew up reading Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

As the Occupy Movement demonstrated, it's tough to change anything when you're talking about everything.

My mother informed me that the way to be a change agent to create change, the first line of defense, or however you want to phrase that, is politics and government.

I have always had a great deal of respect and admiration for Eleanor Roosevelt. She was a true humanitarian and champion of Women's Rights and Civil Rights.

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.

Jack Geiger, for example, was a leader of that movement. He was part of Physicians for Social Responsibility, which was kind of one of the ways that I worked my way into social activism in medicine.

It is my hope that people today will see that, in another time, in another period, when we saw the need for people to speak up, to organize, to mobilize, and to do something about injustice, we came together.

I need to take toward a lot of things that will refine me and make me better suited for leading anyone out of any place of injustice to a place of justice.

It is important to keep protesting, to keep forcing a conversation in the public arena. In any case, when you know what the right thing to do is, or that something must be said, it can be immoral and dangerous not to act.

Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970s, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired of seeing our air, land and water polluted. They were shocked when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was polluted so badly it caught fire. And on one great day 20 million Americans marched all across this land. Politicians had no choice but to take notice.

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.

We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time.