Veronica Roth Quotes

The ones who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless.

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.

If people are being downtrodden and mistreated, it's our obligation, it's our responsibility to speak out, not just for ourselves but for others.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.

Let's resolve to never be a bystander in the fight for human dignity

For over twenty years, Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with those on the margins and those whose burdens are more than they can bear; it stands with the poor and the powerless, with the easily-despised and the readily-left out.

I think I have a gene in me to always fight for the underdog, which I've done since I was a kid.

I went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there, I got down on my knees and listened and learned from the people.

You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else's freedom and not worry about your own.

If somebody does something wrong to someone around me, I can be firm. But that's always to protect someone to whom wrong is being done to.

World leaders and, particularly, Muslim religious leaders need to stand up and protect the oppressed.

I have in my bones, and in my blood, the knowledge that you have to help the people who are persecuted.

I'm an activist and advocate. I have empathy. It is hard to ignore causes.

Everybody should be defended, and people should be willing to stand with them to let them know that an attack on them is an attack on me.

I think of myself as a human-rights advocate and as a mother.

In my human-rights work, perhaps the most important thing is gaining the trust of the victims.

We are the party that hears the stories of people, the struggles.

I feel that my purpose is to shed light on some of the darker sides of our world, and to lend a hand and a voice to people struggling.

The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we care about so deeply become endangered, we become enraged. And what a healthy thing that is! Without it, we would never stand up and speak out for what we believe.

A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to.

For pragmatic reasons, for lessening of violence and for allowing people to live better lives, I think that the march forward for GLBTQ+ rights is a worthwhile one. But for me, hopefully the frontier is alliance-making across all the social issues, whereby people can get over whatever prejudices they're holding in order to keep their eyes on making livable lives for people in all states of vulnerability, no matter what their gender, sexuality, race, class, origin, whatever.

We need to realize that we should be on the side of any human being who is oppressed.

He took a stance as a man, and the greatest thing about Peter Norman is when you sit back and think about Tommie Smith and John Carlos here in America, they could go beat up on Tommie Smith and get tired of beating up on him and go to the other side of town and find John Carlos and beat up on him, but when Peter Norman left and went to Australia, there was no switch-off on Peter.

We can't say that we believe in each other's fundamental humanity, and then turn a blind eye to the reality of each other's existence, and the truth of each others' hearts. We must be allies and we must be allies in this business, because to be represented is to be humanized, and as long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.