Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes

A man must be willing to die for justice

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice.

I have the courage of youth, and I'm not afraid of anything. My only enemies are illegality and corruption.

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

The just man walks in his integrity

The courts may have their finest hours, but they'll not break us. We will not settle for one penny less than our objectives. The judge can drop dead in his black robes. I don't care if I rot in jail. I will not call off the strike.

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. Fiat justitia et ruant coeli.

Those who protest at injustice are people of true merit.

Unsupported by justice, valor is good for nothing; and if all men were just, there would be no need of valor.

I have huge respect for whistle-blowers, people who stand up against their bosses and losing their careers, just for truth and justice.

I am not afraid to go to jail.

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.

It's going to take more than a handslap to keep me from fighting for what I believe.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

Indeed, one perfect resister is enough to win the battle of Right against Wrong.

I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.

Be just, and fear not.

In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met full head-on and that it be resisted with every fiber in our being. There is just absolutely no compromise that can be made with it.