Henning Mankell Quotes

Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.

The common people who marched for the right to vote must now march for the right to breathe.

You can't expect to go about change - especially change of this nature, when you talk about racial equality and justice - you can't expect to go about or engage in that without resistance, and so you're going to have some people who aren't on board.

So whether that's taking a bunch of people from Chicago down to Standing Rock or being in Flint, Michigan, or being in Palestine or Baton Rouge after Alton Sterling's killing, I've been trying to, just as a man, be present and stand with the struggling and oppressed people around the world.

We punk fans have so much energy to give to the fight against injustice, i.e. the abuse of the poor by the rich, i.e. climate change.

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

You can listen to them [environmental protesters] but don’t stop your project—don’t stop your thinking.

It is futile to seek solutions to environmental disturbances without considering them from a broad perspective that encompasses the factors underlying world poverty and the inequities within and among nations.

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.

It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

The conservation movement, the environmental movement as we know it, really needed to adopt some of the tactics that the civil rights movement and the anti-nuclear movement were already using successfully.

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

You must become an activist if you are going to live the natural life.

I'm proud to be part of the resistance.

Whatever I do, it will be fighting for social justice.

Injustice has exhausted people but also pushed them to organize and fight back in very sophisticated ways.

I began to lead two lives... one being a kid and the other starting to speak internationally about the environment... and advocating for social and environmental justice.

I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.

Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

I like to be able to raise people's consciousness, yes. And to remind that those of us involved in the receiving end of the oppression, we have a duty.