Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds.

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.

Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly.

I want every American to stand up for his rights, even if he has to sit down for them.

MLK, Jr. taught me how to say no to segregation, and I can hear him saying now... when you straighten up your back, no man can ride you. He said stand up straight and say no to racial discrimination.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

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.

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

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

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

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

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.

All over this world people are standing up for freedom.

Power cedes nothing without a demand.

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

There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.

Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free.

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

I'm like a one-woman protest machine.

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

I refuse to be pushed around anymore.

Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.

My voice is not going to be silenced by anybody.