Maya Angelou Quotes

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

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

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 I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me - I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I - I might want to march out on that.

We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

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

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

Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.

There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

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.'

Those who protest at injustice are people of true merit.

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.

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

When the cause is just, and there's been injustice, then it's easy to kind of galvanize your emotions and confront a guy.

I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud and they're going to hear from me. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

I don't want tea, I want justice!

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.

We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided! Let's fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice! The world is laughing at us.

The truth about injustice always sounds outrageous.

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.

If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.

If you’re not angry, then you’re just stupid, you don’t care. How else can you react when something’s so unfair?

We should retain our anger in the face of injustice and not be shamed by that.

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

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