Lakhdar Brahimi Quotes

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

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

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

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

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

I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

Injustice can never be stood for.

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.

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 were fighting for a just cause and the whole world was not paying attention.

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

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.]

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

I feel there are injustices in the world that I'll stand up for, and I think that it's important to realize that the world is filled with these kinds of issues.

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.

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.

My life has been varied, involving many jobs, but I have always been impatient with injustice.

When things are not fair, I speak my mind.

I just don't see why people are treated differently or with a different set of rules. It's just wrong.

I grew up thinking the most decent job to do was to fight injustice.

I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.

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

We have to fight for what's right the same way the brothers and sisters that came before us did. The ultimate example, and there are many others, was The Stonewall Inn. They were pushed until they could take no more.