Miriam Defensor-Santiago Quotes

I prefer to just jump into something instead of put it on the back burner, and I suppose that's how I deal with most challenging things. I'd rather just attack it head-on.

If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it--why wait till next year?

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.

The just man and firm of purpose—not the heat of fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, not presence of threatening tyrant can shake—in his rocklike soul.

Those who protest at injustice are people of true merit.

We are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

O be not weary of well doing! Go on, in the name of God and in the power of his might, till even American slavery (the vilest that ever saw the sun) shall vanish away before it.

Justice is what love looks like in public

Fighting for what is right is not always popular but is always necessary.

Justice is what love looks like in public.

There are times … when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

I believe that to have interfered as I have done—in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right.

God has always given me the strength to say what is right.

I like the feeling that I'm on the right side of history.

I feel like my career is to speak truth to power, and a lot of times, that sounds like troublemaking. If speaking truth is troublemaking, then yes, I will consider myself a professional at that.

Katie Otto goes after stuff she doesn't feel is right, and she stands up for it. I do that too, just kind of in a slightly kinder way because I'm from the South.

I think people are hungry for someone who will stand up on principle.

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.

I don't pick up fights casually. I fight for what is right.

Some emotions are essential to law and to public principles of justice: anger at wrongdoing, fear for our safety, compassion for the pain of others, all these are good reasons to make laws that protect people in their rights.

Whatever I tackle I like to attack a situation, hit it head on, go for it.

A lot of people think that if something doesn't happen right away with women or with a particular minority, they are overlooked and they're not important and that is so much not the case.

I believe that God and the people of Pakistan are with me, and I hope that, somewhere, justice is still alive.

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