Johnny Cash Quotes

Everything is not perfect in our world.

I mean, you know, we don't live in a perfect world.

The status quo is simply unacceptable.

Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere.

Social change can be painful for all involved—oppressor and oppressed.

We will have demonstrations until the injustices that have caused them are eliminated.

I have always believed in discontent – not grumbling, which is usually selfish and individual – but a disinclination to sit down idly, knowing things are wrong.

… all the baggage of a paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

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

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

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.

Much law, but little justice.

Much law, but no justice.

If you try to smooth out society with a hot iron, you're liable to drive out all talent.

If you are on the wrong side of society you can’t win.

The starting point is a passionate anger at something that does not work very well.

Those who are most desperate for change are those who are the most powerless to effect it.

We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

I certainly feel injustice. I'm no foreigner to that, whether it's real or perceived.