Frederick Douglass Quotes

Our struggle is going to succeed but not because of numbers. Our struggle is going to succeed because it is a just struggle.

Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.

If you want peace, work for justice.

I believe we can make progress on bringing true equality and fairness back to our government if we continue to work together and make our voices heard.

Our greatest strength in our fight for justice is our people - the thousands of men and women who have dedicated their careers, often at great personal sacrifice, to working for justice in America.

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.

We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick.

We need to do more than just what is right. We need to join together and right what is wrong.

Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.

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

Effective action is always unjust.

…aspiration for justice often finds itself the captive of ideologies which hide or pervert its meaning …

For every social wrong there must be a remedy.

Our party’s always been the place you can come to wherever there’s injustice. That’s what the Democratic Party’s for. That’s why it was born. That’s why it survives. So the poor and the downtrodden and the bended can have a place to turn.

Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living.

Agitate, Agitate, Agitate. But only for a good cause and in a proper manner.

What does it matter if an individual is shattered - if only justice is resurrected?

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

In our struggle against apartheid, the great supporters were Jewish people. They almost instinctively had to be on the side of the disenfranchised, of the voiceless ones, fighting injustice, oppression and evil.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Justice cannot wait for democracy.

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

There are times … when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

I wanted to help the world be more just.