Myles Munroe Quotes

While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.

Whether you've found your calling, or if you're still searching, passion should be the fire that drives your life's work.

There is something wrong with you if you don't get angry about something.

If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

I have to have a passion in my life.

When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.

I always think in life passion supersedes everything.

Wherever there is injustice, there is anger, and anger is like gasoline - if you spray it around and somebody lights a matchstick, you have an inferno. But anger inside an engine is powerful: it can drive us forward and can get us through dreadful moments and give us power. I learnt this with my discussions with nuclear policy makers.

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.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

What drives you? What's your motivation? That's not emotion. That's passion. It's a different word.

I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it.

My passion is my driving force.

I don't want tea, I want justice!

We do justice coldly, injustice hotly.

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

Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

I didn't choose to be a guitar player. That was something that felt like it was chosen for me. And with that blessing and curse, I, throughout my entire career, it's been my job to weave my convictions into my vocation. And whether I'm standing in the streets of Chicago or the Occupy Wall Street or in Madison, Wisconsin, my job is to steel the backbone of people on the frontlines of social justice struggles, and to put wind in sails of those struggles. And people who are fighting on a, on a daily basis, at a grass roots level, for the things that I believe in.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Only pissed-off people change the world.

Activism is something that no one can fake. You get angry. You cry. But you never throw in your towel, because that anger is what is propelling you to further action.

We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.