Roxane Gay Quotes

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you as I was outraged by Nazism, then people become militant, strong, and involved.

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.

If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me - I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I - I might want to march out on that.

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.

As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

I don't fear death; I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice. I am young and I want to live. But I say to those that would eliminate my voice: I am ready, wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring.

When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way.

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

To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty.

All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to protest web censorship. People are getting smart and getting connected.

For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

It is better to protest than to accept injustice.

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle....goa ts are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

If people were silent, nothing would change.

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.

If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.

So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

They claim that I'm violent just cuz I refuse to be silent.

I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.