Elie Wiesel Quotes

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

Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to 'right' these 'wrongs.'

When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don't just shut up and say it's none of my business.

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

If we won't fight injustice wherever we see it, then we are not safe from suffering injustice ourselves.

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.

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

I refuse to be one of those people who watches injustices yet does nothing.

I will never apologize for standing up against oppression and injustice in Israel or anywhere else.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

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.

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

I don't fear death; I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice. I am young and I want to live. But I say to those that would eliminate my voice: I am ready, wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring.

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

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

The most important thing my grandfather taught me was that the most noble way to use your skills, intellect and energy is to defend the marginalized against those with the greatest power - and that the resulting animosity from those in power is a badge of honor.

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.

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 think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

No one who passively endures an injustice against himself has the material in him to struggle for the rights of others. The one who patiently forbears becomes an accessory to the injustice done to others. He who resists the injustice which he himself meets can open up the way to a higher right for others.