Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Quotes

Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.

I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't bear bad behaviour to other people. I cannot bear it that people are mean to people who can't help what they are.

To affirm my own rights I must define and affirm the rights of others.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.

If we won't fight injustice wherever we see it, then we are not safe from suffering injustice ourselves.

It takes us many years to learn that the passion for justice and the welfare of all, once it has been aroused, is the deepest one in moral life.

The demonization of people who don't have a voice is particularly despicable, and the only thing we can do in our own little way is hold a mirror up to society and kind of say we're better than that.

I feel it is my duty to help the migrants, the heartbeats of our country. We have seen migrants walking on the highways with their families and kids. We just can't sit in the AC and tweet and show our concern till we don't go on the roads, till we don't become one of them.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.

I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.