Elizabeth Lail Quotes

I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against 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.

Injustice can never be stood for.

Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to 'right' these 'wrongs.'

I feel there are injustices in the world that I'll stand up for, and I think that it's important to realize that the world is filled with these kinds of issues.

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.

When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.

Poverty is rooted in injustice.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

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.

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

How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?

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

I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.

If you're perpetuating discrimination, you're perpetuating inequality.

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

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

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.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

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!

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.