Clarence Darrow Quotes

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.

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.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

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

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime - namely, repressive justice.

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.

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

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

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

Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.

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

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

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

People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.

The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.

I believed that, in a situation where the community that I came from were being treated like second- and third-class citizens, that I had a responsibility to fight back against it. And I don't apologise to anybody for having done that. I think it was the right thing to do.

I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.

I've always hated oppression.

If we support human rights, we cannot ignore legalized brutality against any group of our global community.

It's always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

When a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head up and say, "I am not lesser!" Some people can do it and some cannot; and some of those people who cannot will be destroyed.

[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.