Mumia Abu-Jamal Quotes

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

Fighting for what is right is not always popular but is always necessary.

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

Those who protest at injustice are people of true merit.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice.

When I see a blatant injustice, I can't keep quiet. I've been that way since I was a little kid.

You have to stand up for what's right in life. Unless you do that... you're nothing.

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

These are the days for strong men to courageously expose wrong.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it.

From my father's point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government.

When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.

You have to stand up for some things in this world.

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Do not follow a multitude to do evil.

I would like to be remembered as one who in the world's darkest hours kept a clean conscience and stood at the end for the ideals of American democracy.

Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in this faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

I am a man of peace. God knows how I love peace. But I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.

To live with integrity in an unjust society we must work for justice. To walk with integrity through a landscape strewn with beer cans, we must stop and pick them up.