Charles Lenox Remond Quotes

it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks.

It is my hope that people today will see that, in another time, in another period, when we saw the need for people to speak up, to organize, to mobilize, and to do something about injustice, we came together.

If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.

Power cedes nothing without a demand.

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people.

Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to 'right' these 'wrongs.'

History dictates that unresponsive governments force ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

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

If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law

He apologizes for injustice …. Belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions…. He should be unceasingly and firmly opposed.

I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.

I began using the #smallacts hashtag on Twitter shortly after the 2016 election as a way to resist. To resist the intolerance growing in our nation, to resist an upcoming administration that I believe threatens to pull us backward and strip rights from those already marginalized.

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

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

Sometimes things need to get really bad before they can ever get better. Really bad can become untenable if enough people get sick of it. That was a big thing about why I ended up taking part in that rally [against police brutality] and ended up voicing my opinion and declaring what side I was standing on.

I feel so proud to see young people standing up against the injustice to stand up and say that "All lives matter." They're following in the footsteps of those who came before them.

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.

It's the reason why I am always interested in engaging in people who are pushing us and pushing against the status quo. But having been an activist, the only thing that I'm always encouraging activists to do is, once you have raised the issue, and even through controversial means, you have to come behind it with an agenda and the possibility of reconciliation if power meets your demands.

I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really face the problems that people who are pushed to the point of striking know all about, but others know practically nothing about.

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

Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying "Enough!" He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable - this is Marcos.