Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.

If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

At some point, Twitter hash tags are not enough. Eventually, you have to stand up.

When I see something wrong, I speak up.

You can't be dismissive of important things. You have to speak out, even if you don't get the results you would like to have.

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

I don't fear death; I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice. I am young and I want to live. But I say to those that would eliminate my voice: I am ready, wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring.

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

I refuse to be silenced.

No one who passively endures an injustice against himself has the material in him to struggle for the rights of others. The one who patiently forbears becomes an accessory to the injustice done to others. He who resists the injustice which he himself meets can open up the way to a higher right for others.

When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.

When I see something messed up, I'm going to challenge it.

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.'

To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.

When men hold their peace, the stones will cry out.

I did not want to be silent because I had to live in that situation for ever. It would be better to speak and be killed

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.

When things are not fair, I speak my mind.

If it wasn't for so many brave people standing up, speaking out, and fighting for equal rights, we might not have all of the luxuries of freedom that we have today. So many unsung people fought for us to be able to live together in harmony no matter how different we are from one another.

Wilberforce, because of his faith, stood up for African slaves. Bonhoeffer, because of his faith, stood up for Jews. That's Christianity to me.

I always had to fight for the chance to get people to hear me.

If we won't fight injustice wherever we see it, then we are not safe from suffering injustice ourselves.