Auberon Waugh Quotes

If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.

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.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law

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

We are living in tumultuous times, and our focus should be fighting against the oppression and injustices that are against us - not battling those who are on the same side of seeking justice and peace.

I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.

It's always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

To all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity!

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.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

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

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

The best jihad is to speak a word of justice to an oppressive ruler.

The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.

Nothing is more inspiring to see how poor and suffering people, living under conditions incomparably worse than we endure, continue quietly and unpretentiously with courageous and committed struggle for justice and dignity.

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

It is better to protest than to accept injustice.

Sometimes you must live in a violent world in order to get greater justice.

I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice.

When a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head up and say, "I am not lesser!" Some people can do it and some cannot; and some of those people who cannot will be destroyed.

True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!