Jane Velez-Mitchell Quotes

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.

Silence is complicity. I believe that.

Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.

Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.

I have no love for those who consider themselves 'good people' but stand idly by as the world crumbles around them. It's not enough to personally not do damage. If you're present as someone else destroys what's around you and you do nothing, you helped them.

I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands, Say, This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can...

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.

Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense.

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

I always feel compelled to lend my voice to things I strongly believe in.

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

Bad things happen when problems are protected by a force field of tediousness.

Awareness without action is worthless.

I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better.

Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.

I feel like it's my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth.

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.