Angelina Jolie Quotes

There are voices and they must be heard.

We've got to understand that all disenfranchised people have something in common...The pursuit of justice really is about equality for everyone.

There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.

I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.

I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.

I believe in the universality of freedom and therefore want to be involved in the freedom movement.

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

All over this world people are standing up for freedom.

The struggle of our people for freedom has progressed to the form where all of us must take a stand either for or against the freedom of our people You are either with Your People or against them. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

Listen, here's reality. It is completely unfair and absolutely necessary that people who have been oppressed and marginalized have to lead everybody. That is MLK, that is Dolores Huerta, that is Fannie Lou Hamer, that is Ella Jo Baker, that is Nelson Mandela. You walk down the line.

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.

It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or plumbers have just as much of a responsibility to do that as artists.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign are standing up and fighting the important fights that have to be fought.

I am going to fight for important things.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Idea of holding each other’s hands at the Women’s March—it feels like we are being invited to do that every day. So many of us are feeling attacked, whether it’s a woman’s right to choose or headstones in a Jewish cemetery, immigrants being deported or banned. So many of us feel the need to protect and defend our democracy. And march toward the dream of being “We the people.” So that’s exciting, scary, and frustrating. We’re awake. We are awake more than ever before, and we have to stay awake.

We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.

Certainly Martin Luther King, in the mainstream perception of him, had a dream. Yes, he did. But the question becomes, what was that dream? It wasn't the American Dream. It was a dream that all human beings, especially poor and working people, be treated with dignity.