Manal al-Sharif Quotes

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

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

There's no amount of money that can make me shut up about something I think is wrong.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

I have huge respect for whistle-blowers, people who stand up against their bosses and losing their careers, just for truth and justice.

When I see something wrong, I speak up.

I don't think rappers have a responsibility, but for me, I gotta say something. I can't just look at injustice and keep quiet.

Given this platform of being an Olympic athlete, I think it's really important that we stand up for what we believe in, and we speak out against things that we think are wrong and injust.

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

Every fair-minded person holding a position of authority must support the few who have stood up against the injustice being perpetrated in the name of blasphemy.

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

However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

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

My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.

I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

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

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.

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.

No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

Those who protest at injustice are people of true merit.