John Lewis Quotes

When things are not fair, I speak my mind.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I'm a perpetually mad person. I hate injustice. As far as I'm concerned, I'm living to fight injustice. I'm living to fight the goddamned thing. I'm too mad to sleep.

My life has been varied, involving many jobs, but I have always been impatient with injustice.

I grew up thinking the most decent job to do was to fight injustice.

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

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

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.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Injustice can never be stood for.

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.

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

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.

There can be no criminal intent in resisting 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.'

Those who protest at injustice are people of true merit.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

If there is to be justice in the world, American must create it.