Kristen Bell Quotes

If somebody does something wrong to someone around me, I can be firm. But that's always to protect someone to whom wrong is being done to.

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.

I think I have a gene in me to always fight for the underdog, which I've done since I was a kid.

Americans don't like to stand by while innocent people are killed and watch a human disaster unfold. It goes against our very fiber. We feel compelled to do something.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me.

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

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.

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

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.

Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to 'right' these 'wrongs.'

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

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

When the cause is just, and there's been injustice, then it's easy to kind of galvanize your emotions and confront a guy.

Empathy should not be contingent on our proximity to suffering or the likelihood of it happening to us. Rather, it should stem from a disdain that suffering is happening at all.

I refuse to be one of those people who watches injustices yet does nothing.

Look at the world, all the suffering... Being under house arrest is the least I can sacrifice.

For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.

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

I just feel like if I really believe what Dr. King said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,' then I should be compelled to use my God-given platform to effect change.

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.