Cyndi Lauper Quotes

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

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

As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.

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.

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

The rights of all of us are diminished when the rights of any one of us are threatened.

Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

Where there are breaches of human rights, you need to speak out about it, no matter where it is.

World leaders and, particularly, Muslim religious leaders need to stand up and protect the oppressed.

Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.

In this town [L.A], I guess it takes homosexuals to be discriminated against in order for someone to finally step UP and wanna do something.

Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!

We need to realize that we should be on the side of any human being who is oppressed.

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle....goa ts are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.

Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free.

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

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