Justine Musk Quotes

I seek … the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.

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.

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.

We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

I want to be the voice and the vision for the poor and the powerless.

We need someone who is going to stand up, speak up, and speak out for the people who need help, for the people who have been discriminated against.

When things are not fair, I speak my mind.

The people of Butler Island spoke to me and demanded I bear witness for them.

I'm always wanting and willing to be a voice for my people, a voice for the injustice.

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.

I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.

I want to speak for people who can't speak; they're afraid to speak.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

I am here to give voice to the invisible.

The ones who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless.

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.

Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying "Enough!" He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable - this is Marcos.

Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!

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

To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.

I am the result of a loving upbringing in a peaceful country, with wonderful parents and siblings, a very long-term relationship, stability, support - but a feeling that life isn't always just and that there is injustice for people and we should do something about it.

If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.

I am the voice of the voiceless.

The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.