Rick Santorum Quotes

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.

I seek … the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle....goa ts are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.

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

Democracy is not what we hate the most and what we fear the most. We need to stand up.

To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary. We don't feel that in 1964, living in a country that is supposedly based upon freedom, and supposedly the leader of the free world, we don't think that we should have to sit around and wait for some segregationist congressmen and senators and a President from Texas in Washington, D.C., to make up their minds that our people are due now some degree of civil rights. No, we want it now or we don't think anybody should have it.

Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties.

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

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

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

A lot of prophets have gone to jail.

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!

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

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.'

Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stand up and protest.

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

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

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.