Frank Wolf Quotes

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

From my father's point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government.

I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.

I put righteousness above peace, and should be entirely satisfied to lead a crusade for the Armenians.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

No man ought to be condemned for exhorting people to pursue justice in a certain line, though he may foresee that in the pursuit of that justice the opposition given to those who are proceeding in a just course may produce collision, and that collision lead to the commission of crime; but our duty, as I conceive, is to seek for the injustice, and there to impute the crime… It is to that injustice, and not to those who pursue a just course for the attainment of a right end, that the guilt is to be ascribed.

I have in my bones, and in my blood, the knowledge that you have to help the people who are persecuted.

I believe Jews are compassionate people because of what we've suffered. We must not put that suffering onto others.

However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.

I always want to give the victim a voice.

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.

There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.