Bassam Abu Sharif Quotes

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

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

I'm a perpetually mad person. I hate injustice. As far as I'm concerned, I'm living to fight injustice. I'm living to fight the goddamned thing. I'm too mad to sleep.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

What causes terrorism is disrespect, a lack of justice, and poverty.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.

If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism.

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

This is the Middle East. None of the people who were involved with this will be allowed to live.

Evil or atrocity often explodes from a furnace built from the steady accretion of small, unchallenged wrong.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

I am not the least bit surprised that injustice persists. I'm also not surprised that resistance to injustice persists.

I feel there are injustices in the world that I'll stand up for, and I think that it's important to realize that the world is filled with these kinds of issues.

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'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed.

When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.

My life has been varied, involving many jobs, but I have always been impatient with injustice.

We are living in tumultuous times, and our focus should be fighting against the oppression and injustices that are against us - not battling those who are on the same side of seeking justice and peace.

Injustice drives me crazy!