James Wolcott Quotes

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who only have interests.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else's freedom and not worry about your own.

We have to fight for everything we believe in.

All I can hope for is to use my voice for things that I think matter and to stand up for what I believe in.

I've always had a 'stand up for the people' type of personality.

When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.

You have to stand for something bigger than yourself.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.

I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in the context of something you're doing for somebody else, and particularly if you can persuade others to join you in your support.

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.

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

I've always wanted to fight for people who didn't have arms. I've always wanted to speak up for people who don't have a voice. I've always wanted to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. It's my nature. It's my instinct.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

Well, I think that we have to continue to fight for what we believe.

We're not all called to be Dorothy Day.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

I contend that true Socialism is religion; that honest, fervent politics are religion; that whatever a man will labour for earnestly and in some measure unselfishly is religion

They charge me with fanaticism. If to be feelingly alive to the suffering of my fellow creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.