Serj Tankian Quotes

I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.

I'm a fighter. I am passionate about what I believe. I've been passionate my whole life about the American Constitution.

I'm not going to say how, specifically, but I will continue to speak out about human rights and freedoms. Absolutely. We can speak out about what we are angry about, but the most important thing is to try and help people understand the reality and not be blinded by something that is not the truth.

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

We’ve learned that it will take more than one generation to bring about change. The fight for civil rights has developed into a broader concern for human rights, and that encompasses a great many people and countries. Those of us who live in a democracy have a responsibility to be the voice for those whose voices are stilled.

I've always been passionate about human rights in general. I think anyone who knows me can attest to that. I really wasn't given a voice until very recently, but I've always spoken out about the bullshit that's going on since the beginning of having a platform.

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!

Maybe it's because my uncle and my parents were always very involved with the civil rights movement, so I just grew up and I was raised that you have to speak out and look out for your fellow man, woman, and child.

When things are not fair, I speak my mind.

There are voices and they must be heard.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

I am going to fight for important things.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.

I'm going to stand up for what [Donald Trump] says and does that is threatening to Americans, to the lives of Americans, the rights of Americans.

While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.

If people are being downtrodden and mistreated, it's our obligation, it's our responsibility to speak out, not just for ourselves but for others.

We are never assured of justice without a fight.

The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

I think there's so many things happening, whether it's gender inequality or immigration, there's just so many issues happening around the world where not doing anything makes you guilty.

As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.

In this town [L.A], I guess it takes homosexuals to be discriminated against in order for someone to finally step UP and wanna do something.