Mort Sahl Quotes

Regardless of how much media coverage will be received, talking and raising awareness about social injustice isn't enough.

The only way you really see change is by helping to create it.

When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.

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

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

In the U.K., a lot of writers won't show up to support activist issues because they figure they're already repairing the world. I don't want to be one of those people.

Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds.

If you see something that you feel is wrong in society, why not help out?

It's very important that people who are feeling the need to do something... get activated.

We have that platform to tell something and that voice to tell people we have got to stop and change our ways. That's just how I think about it.

You can complain about problems, and you can suffer from the ramifications of issues that are social in nature and impact you, but the best thing you can do is get off your couch, get out of your home and go do something about it.

I was very engaged in my communities throughout college, but I never thought of it as political.

I feel that my purpose is to shed light on some of the darker sides of our world, and to lend a hand and a voice to people struggling.

It really is systematic oppression that is so deeply ingrained into the very fabric of American society... Shedding a light on it, in whatever way possible, is the only way to create change.

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.

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.

I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

Those of us lucky enough to have a share of privilege in the more free societies should not be asking this question, but doing something to answer it.

All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you’re all in it now.

Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.

If you're aware of injustice, you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain about it and not do anything, or put your energies into doing something about it.

Often those who are denied rights are least empowered to bring about the changes they seek.

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

If you aren't an activist you're an inactivist.

There are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize.