Leonard Peltier Quotes

I believe we can make progress on bringing true equality and fairness back to our government if we continue to work together and make our voices heard.

We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick.

If there is wrong, you don't say we have to get rid of it gradually. If injustice exists, you need to eliminate it immediately.

What's more important is that we talk about movements; change happens through movements. The movement to end slavery, the movement to bring justice for those who have been left out of the system, movements to include women, movements around sexual preference - all these movements brought about change.

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

I cannot sit by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Young men in my day really stepped up... These were champions for freedom, equality, and justice for all human beings, and they were educated individuals that used their education and knowledge to represent their case.

I want to thank the fans across the country who have supported me in this effort to fight for equality and justice. I want to thank those that have dedicated their lives to this fight, as I know that it is not easy. And I want to challenge those who stay silent to be courageous and use your platforms to become part of the solution. God Bless.

Rich or poor, we all need organizations that can represent us; we all need modes of collective action when individual action does not yield justice.

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.

A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.

There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

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.

I need to take toward a lot of things that will refine me and make me better suited for leading anyone out of any place of injustice to a place of justice.

The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.

You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.

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

These people in Mississippi State, they are not "down"; all they need is a chance. And I am determined to give my part not for what the Movement can do for me, but what I can do for the Movement to bring about a change in the State of Mississippi.

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement! The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there any reason to believe we are done?