Jackie Shroff Quotes

Everyone has a right to speak out.

The voice of dissent must be heard.

A simple way to determine whether the right to dissent in a particular society is being upheld is to apply the town square test: Can a person walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm? If he can, then that person is living in a free society. If not, it's a fear society.

Opinion and protest are the life breath of democracy—even when it blows heavy.

I’ll defend your right to be a bigot.

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.

It's really important that folks be able to speak out.

I support anybody that does have a grievance to be able to air it, and that's it.

India is the biggest democracy. We have the right to say what we want to say, and people have the right to protest.

The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.

People have the right to say what they want to.

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

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians.

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

I always think the true test of free speech is when someone says something you don't like.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

I do have a mouth - I will say. I speak up when I see things I don't care for.