Stephen Jackson Quotes

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.

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

How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?

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 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.

If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.

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

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

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

We need someone who is going to stand up, speak up, and speak out for the people who need help, for the people who have been discriminated against.

I tend to stand up and speak up when I see something dysfunctional happening.

As the blowback against those who stand up for what is right thickens, I feel it is necessary to push forward with a relentless determination.

You don't have to be a professional athlete to be heard - the most powerful tool you have is your voice.

I understand my mother and father and sister are in Turkey, but if I stop talking, who is going to speak for the thousands and thousands of innocent people in jail?

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.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

I don't fear death; I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice. I am young and I want to live. But I say to those that would eliminate my voice: I am ready, wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring.

I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.

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