Christian Scott Quotes

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

No one who passively endures an injustice against himself has the material in him to struggle for the rights of others. The one who patiently forbears becomes an accessory to the injustice done to others. He who resists the injustice which he himself meets can open up the way to a higher right for others.

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stand up and protest.

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.

When things are not fair, I speak my mind.

As I grew older and got into the late teens and early 20s, I wanted to be a voice of the people. You know, getting locked up all the time and going through so much oppression and seeing it all around myself, I wanted to be a voice for it.

it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

The world is an enormous injustice.

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

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

I am now using media as a tool to bring attention to marginalized people.

Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

Often, those with the most to lose as a result of a poor policy move are the most vulnerable and most marginalized. Those folks need a voice, and I will endeavor to be that voice.

Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to 'right' these 'wrongs.'

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.