Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

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.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

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

If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law

I am not the least bit surprised that injustice persists. I'm also not surprised that resistance to injustice persists.

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud and they're going to hear from me. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression.

We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time.

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

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

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

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

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

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

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

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

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.

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!