David Hogg Quotes

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.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

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.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

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

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

MLK, Jr. taught me how to say no to segregation, and I can hear him saying now... when you straighten up your back, no man can ride you. He said stand up straight and say no to racial discrimination.

It takes one person to stand up for what he believes in. I believe there's been an injustice in Arizona. I oppose Bill 1070.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you as I was outraged by Nazism, then people become militant, strong, and involved.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Our mass movement will shatter this communal, fascist and autocratic center.

An oppressed people will always rise.

For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.

The best hope to smash Fascism in the world.