Bede Jarrett Quotes

To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty.

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

I'm a perpetually mad person. I hate injustice. As far as I'm concerned, I'm living to fight injustice. I'm living to fight the goddamned thing. I'm too mad to sleep.

If we are about what is good today, then we that are good need to come together to fight what's bad out there.

There is something wrong with you if you don't get angry about something.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.

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.

There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.

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.

As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

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

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

I grew up thinking the most decent job to do was to fight injustice.

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

I'll rail against what I think is wrong.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.