Alice Walker 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.

I refuse to be one of those people who watches injustices yet does nothing.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

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.

When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer.

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.'

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Those who protest at injustice are people of true merit.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

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.

When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don't just shut up and say it's none of my business.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

When I see a blatant injustice, I can't keep quiet. I've been that way since I was a little kid.

There are people who can look out for other human beings; there are people who can speak up when something is not right and say, 'This is wrong, and something should be done.'

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

Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

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

My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.

I just feel like if I really believe what Dr. King said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,' then I should be compelled to use my God-given platform to effect change.

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.

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.