Molly Ivins Quotes

We are never assured of justice without a fight.

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

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.

[ Dalton Trumbo] always said he fought so many fights, all seemingly different, but all about the concepts of fairness and justice.

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

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

There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.

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

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.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day

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

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.

We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.

Equality is never given, it is taken.

All over this world people are standing up for freedom.

The struggle of our people for freedom has progressed to the form where all of us must take a stand either for or against the freedom of our people You are either with Your People or against them. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it.

Set it up in Zimbabwe, Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny, And in this judgment there is no partiality. So arm in arms, with arms, we'll fight this little struggle, 'Cause that's the only way we can overcome our little trouble.

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.

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free.

To fight oppression, and to work as best we can for a sane organization of society, we do not have to abandon the state of mind offreedom. If we do that we are letting the same thuggery in by the back door that we are fighting off in front of the house.