Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes

A minority of malcontents, some justly, some unjustly, angry with the present state of things, will always exist in this world.

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.

The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.

As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

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.

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.

As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

Many people are never happier than when they get the opportunity to complain, while others are deeply unhappy with how things are but just accept the fact. Complaint occurs when we refuse to accept that things are wrong and we do something about it, even if that something is simply articulating our unease.

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!

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.

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

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.

I swear to the Lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me.

Woe to them, that take away the right of the poor.

A riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality and humanity. And so in a real sense our nation’s summers of riots are caused by our nation’s winters of delay. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again. Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention.

We were fighting for a just cause and the whole world was not paying attention.

The starting point is a passionate anger at something that does not work very well.

He apologizes for injustice …. Belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions…. He should be unceasingly and firmly opposed.

I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.

My life has been varied, involving many jobs, but I have always been impatient with injustice.

When things are not fair, I speak my mind.

If I feel as though myself or my teammates have been dealt a wrong hand, I'm going to let it be known.

As a young man, I was angry about all things legal.