Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

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

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks.

The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.

As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.

The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power.

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle....goa ts are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for. It was just time… there was opportunity for me to take a stand to express the way I felt about being treated in that manner. I had not planned to get arrested. I had plenty to do without having to end up in jail. But when I had to face that decision, I didn't hesitate to do so because I felt that we had endured that too long. The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.

I'm going to fight for human rights, whether I do it silently behind the scenes or vocally so that I get locked up. I can't just sit back; it's not in my nature. I can't sit back and blindly ignore it, and I won't.

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

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.

We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance.

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

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

We are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

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.

These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest

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