Elie Wiesel Quotes

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

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

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle....goa ts are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

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.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

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.

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!

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you as I was outraged by Nazism, then people become militant, strong, and involved.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

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

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

For we went, changing our country more often than our shoes In the class war, despairing When there was only injustice and no resistance

We are poor and our allies are few, but we have our bodies and justice as our tools.

The people's flag is deepest red; It shrouded oft our martyred dead .... Then raise the scarlet standard high. Within its shade we'll live or die. Tho' cowards flinch and traitors sneer, We'll keep the red flag flying here.

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stand up and protest.

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.

Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

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

The Black Panther Party stood up and said that we don't care what anybody says. We don't think fighting fire with fire is best; we think you fight fire with water best.

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.

We will change things if people stand up for what they believe in against injustice and death to save themselves and the future of America - and the world.

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