Shelley Morrison Quotes

I have no love for those who consider themselves 'good people' but stand idly by as the world crumbles around them. It's not enough to personally not do damage. If you're present as someone else destroys what's around you and you do nothing, you helped them.

We have got to stop being a society that turns our heads and looks the other way.

Silence is complicity. I believe that.

Passivity is a tacit endorsement of evil we are too afraid to oppose actively.

I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands, Say, This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can...

The real problem is not the bad guys; it is that good guys have gone to sleep.

Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Liberalism is: To let things drift if they do not affect one personally; to say as little as possible while knowing perfectly well what is wrong, to be worldly wise and play safe and seek only to avoid blame

Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.

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

I have nine children. It breaks my heart to think that it might be their blood is needed to redeem something, to reclaim something that we, through our apathy and our indifference, have given away.

I don't want to be that person who's looking squarely at the shortcomings in the process right where I sit and then choose to walk away and do nothing.

There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something is observed and not fixed, or when one has a chance to give in some way and does not, there is a lie being told, the same lie we all know by heart but which needn't be reiterated.

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.