Arvind Kejriwal Quotes

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

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.

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

The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.

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

I believe in the power of media. I really do. It's my soapbox. And I do have an agenda, because I'm enraged by the limitations forced on people - by poverty, oppression, hatred, fear - and I'm saddened by the kind of loss we all experienced due to the contributions that people cannot make because of their circumstances.

I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

I like to be able to raise people's consciousness, yes. And to remind that those of us involved in the receiving end of the oppression, we have a duty.

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

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

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'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.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression. My address is like my shoes; it travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

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

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

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

Social injustice still needs to be denounced and fought. [In the post-communist era.]

I'm not quite sure precisely when social and political activism became a visible brand of my DNA, but it seems to me that I was born into it. It is hard to be born into the experience in the world of poverty and not develop some instinct for survival and resistance to those things that oppress you.

I am not the least bit surprised that injustice persists. I'm also not surprised that resistance to injustice persists.

It takes all sorts of people to come together to fight tyranny. It's not about one race anymore.