Molly Ivins Quotes

When I was young, I remember having a particular pain about injustice. Suffering hurt me.

Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.

My entire life has been guided by a sense of equality, equality for loved ones.

I'm very mindful of trying to do something good in the world. When I see injustice in the world, it's very hard for me.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Hatred of injustice is not the same thing as a love for everyday people.

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness.

Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.

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

Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.

Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people ... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.