W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.

No right dies so long as someone demands it.

Whatever I do, it will be fighting for social justice.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

The best jihad is to speak a word of justice to an oppressive ruler.

Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.

So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds.

There is a point in fighting. There is a point in struggle. Not wholesale revolution, maybe, that might not be possible, an absolutely just society, but there are plenty of spaces and places where it's worth putting up a fight.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom.

If you're aware of injustice, you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain about it and not do anything, or put your energies into doing something about it.

There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting.

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

I would have felt ashamed if I had not been part of the resistance and part of fighting back against the forces of the state.

You can't expect to go about change - especially change of this nature, when you talk about racial equality and justice - you can't expect to go about or engage in that without resistance, and so you're going to have some people who aren't on board.

As I grew older and got into the late teens and early 20s, I wanted to be a voice of the people. You know, getting locked up all the time and going through so much oppression and seeing it all around myself, I wanted to be a voice for it.

I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

Rosa Parks showed us all that one little person can make a whole bunch of noise without so much as a whisper. She showed the world that the color of your skin shouldn't determine what part of the bus you sit in... as you ride through life.

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

The history in our country speaks to our highest values of people who did not accept things as they are and go along with them. They resisted, they refused to accept the world as it is, they demanded it to be a better reflection of their highest dreams and highest aspirations.

We, the Desaparecidos, are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying.