Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.

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

Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.

I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really face the problems that people who are pushed to the point of striking know all about, but others know practically nothing about.

The highest form of patriotism is dissent.

I am a rebel by birth... I contest anything that is unjust, that causes suffering in humanity. My feelings about that are so strong, I don't think I could live with myself if I weren't honest.

There are times we have to put our body on the line for what we believe, for the injustices we see even within our own families.

We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement! The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there any reason to believe we are done?

The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.

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.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice - and we must demand justice in Ferguson and the other 'Fergusons' around America.

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

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

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

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.