Kendrick Lamar Quotes

As the blowback against those who stand up for what is right thickens, I feel it is necessary to push forward with a relentless determination.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.

On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala'. They did not say 'I am Taliban.'

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.

I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. And then you win.

Speaking truth to power is never going to be easy.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.

Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble... good trouble, necessary trouble.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

I say to myself if you believe deeply in your heart you must defy, and if you are willing to pay for your defiance, you must always do it, even though the pain may be much. Too many times in our lives we do not do it, and we pay even more.

If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner.

Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

Those who march with us will certainly face abuse, misunderstanding, bitter animosity, and possibly the ferocity of struggle and of danger. In return, we can only offer to them the deep belief that they are fighting that a great land may live.

It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer Neither is resignation Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment.

Out of resistance comes strength.

They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring.

Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can.

When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.

Rise and take your stance once again