Buenaventura Durruti Quotes

Social injustice still needs to be denounced and fought. [In the post-communist era.]

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

I'm a perpetually mad person. I hate injustice. As far as I'm concerned, I'm living to fight injustice. I'm living to fight the goddamned thing. I'm too mad to sleep.

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

He apologizes for injustice …. Belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions…. He should be unceasingly and firmly opposed.

I am said to be a revolutionist in my sympathies, by birth, by breeding and by principle. I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

I do not believe as Martin Luther King did, that the arc of history bends towards justice. I see the arc of history bending towards chaos or the unknown.

I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.

I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.

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

I'm not a docile, complacent person when it comes to racial aggressions.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

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

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

Injustice can never be stood for.

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

Social injustice is such a familiar phenomenon ... that it is readily regarded as something natural, even by its victims.

For we went, changing our country more often than our shoes In the class war, despairing When there was only injustice and no resistance

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them