Shaun King Quotes

We will have demonstrations until the injustices that have caused them are eliminated.

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.

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.

We are living in tumultuous times, and our focus should be fighting against the oppression and injustices that are against us - not battling those who are on the same side of seeking justice and peace.

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

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.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

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.

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

We have to fight for what's right the same way the brothers and sisters that came before us did. The ultimate example, and there are many others, was The Stonewall Inn. They were pushed until they could take no more.

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.

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.

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

Injustice can never be stood for.

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

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!

People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.

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

I ain’t got no quarrel with the Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger.

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

This is a hard job to do …. We represent the underdog, and that makes the top dogs angry.