Taboo Quotes

We will change things if people stand up for what they believe in against injustice and death to save themselves and the future of America - and the world.

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

It's always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.

I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

Injustice can never be stood for.

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

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.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

The best hope to smash Fascism in the world.

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.

For we went, changing our country more often than our shoes In the class war, despairing When there was only injustice and no resistance

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

Prisons are universities of the opposition.

I'll continue fighting as long as these social injustices exist.

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

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

I am not the least bit surprised that injustice persists. I'm also not surprised that resistance to injustice persists.

We protest to our last breath against the purveyors of hatred, cruelty and violence.

I'm proud to be part of the resistance.

MLK, Jr. taught me how to say no to segregation, and I can hear him saying now... when you straighten up your back, no man can ride you. He said stand up straight and say no to racial discrimination.

As the blowback against those who stand up for what is right thickens, I feel it is necessary to push forward with a relentless determination.

Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, why don't the adults around here just say something? Say it so they know we don't accept segregation? I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there's no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.'

I don't consider myself part of the Resistance because that's against something, and you have to be for something.

You can't expect to go about change - especially change of this nature, when you talk about racial equality and justice - you can't expect to go about or engage in that without resistance, and so you're going to have some people who aren't on board.