Susan Polis Schutz Quotes

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

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.

Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.

Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

We’ve learned that it will take more than one generation to bring about change. The fight for civil rights has developed into a broader concern for human rights, and that encompasses a great many people and countries. Those of us who live in a democracy have a responsibility to be the voice for those whose voices are stilled.

We have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.

We'll fight, not out of spite For someone must stand up for what's right 'Cause where there's a man who has no voice There ours shall go singing My hands are small I know But they're not yours, they are my own But they're not yours, they are my own I am never broken In the end only kindness matters In the end only kindness matters

There are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize.

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.

Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.

I think when I started going to war zones and started covering humanitarian issues, it became a calling because I realized I had a voice, and I can give people without a voice a voice... and now it is something that sits inside of me every day.

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.

You have to stand up for some things in this world.

In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.

There are times … when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

When I see something wrong, I speak up.

Katie Otto goes after stuff she doesn't feel is right, and she stands up for it. I do that too, just kind of in a slightly kinder way because I'm from the South.

While I am furious about injustice, I do what I do, fighting against it, out of a place of love.

I think it's so important for somebody like me to stand up for the things I believe in and speak up on things I don't think are right.

All of us are driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won't do - that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.

I am going to fight for important things.

I write for the still, small possibility of justice.