Barbara Boxer Quotes

I've faced the grief, I've faced the anger, and I'm ready to keep up the fight because America is worth fighting for.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

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

The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

All of us are driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won't do - that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.

Political struggle is the most important thing any of us can do as a citizen in a democracy; and that means the old joining the young to fight for elemental kinds of justice.

Social media itself is not protest. To tweet is not to protest physically. To do a Facebook post, and though it's critical and crucial, is not to show up and embody the anger you feel, to embody the righteous outrage you feel, to embody the concern you feel. This is about putting feet to pavement and to register in the consciousness of America that this is something that's problematic.

I'm angry at what's happening to America and angry with myself that I can't do more. I would be miserable if I couldn't bear witness.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

Intuitively we all like to seek the things that are comfortable rather than uncomfortable. But I do think there is a way of saying that if I believe in justice and I believe that justice is a constant struggle, and if I want to create justice, then I have to get comfortable with struggle.

The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.

There is a point in fighting. There is a point in struggle. Not wholesale revolution, maybe, that might not be possible, an absolutely just society, but there are plenty of spaces and places where it's worth putting up a fight.

It's not enough to say we need to love each other, you have to go behind that and say we need to change these policies, we need to fight, we need to protest, we need to agitate for change.

You've got to get people to believe that change is possible... You have to show that you can fight things successfully even if you don't win.

If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it.

We must fight to carry out his radical and bold vision for America.

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’—I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry n’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build—why, I’ll be there.

We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.

That was a f****g dumb question. If I didn't think I was gonna win, why the hell would I be fighting?!

What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of grief that is laid on each one of us. In youth we don't feel it, but as we grow to manhood we find the burden on our shoulders. Humor? It is nature's effort to harmonize conditions. The further the pendulum swings out over woe the further it is bound to swing back over mirth.

We Have Got To Bring Corporate America To Its Knees

These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for.