Tom Perez Quotes

You can't let challenges argue you out of doing what you know is the right thing.

You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.

I'm always inspired by people who choose to do what is right, not what is easy.

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

We have the obligation to defy public opinion in the public interest.

If you step out and do what you feel is right... and you're not attacking a person, and you're attacking a process, and you're attacking the status quo... and if somebody wants to hold a grudge against me, that's on them. It's not on me, and I'm going to do what I think is right.

We want to push it. We feel we are the envelope.

There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.

Stand up for what you know is right.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.

People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?

When we win, it will tell every politician in America that if you are bold, if you do the right thing, if you tackle the tough issues, there will be people standing there right with you.

You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters.

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, 'Just criticize and don't do anything and let's win by default.' That's ridiculous.

To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.

Decent people can stand against mountains of power and move those mountains for the betterment of their children.

The world is full of men who think and teach what is right. But as soon as they are called upon to act, they are assailed by doubts and fears.

Sometimes you’ve got to do what is right even though it might be ahead of the people.

Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.

Speaking truth to power is never going to be easy.

I guess coming out against actual evil takes guts.