Martha Gellhorn Quotes

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

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

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.

Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.

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

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

I seek … the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle....goa ts are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

Power cedes nothing without a demand.

We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

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!

I don't want tea, I want justice!

it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks.

There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying "Enough!" He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable - this is Marcos.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!

As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

Shall we longer bear these cruelties which have been heaped upon us for the last ten years in the face of heaven, and in open violation of the constitution and law of these United States and of this state? God forbid! I will not bear it. If they take away my rights, I will fight for them manfully and righteously until I am used up. We have done nothing against the rights of others.

The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.

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

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

All over this world people are standing up for freedom.

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.