Leon Uris Quotes

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.

So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds.

There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.

I'm going to fight for human rights, whether I do it silently behind the scenes or vocally so that I get locked up. I can't just sit back; it's not in my nature. I can't sit back and blindly ignore it, and I won't.

Number one comes freedom first for my people and equality. And this is what I plan to do after I'm through fighting - working with nothing but the people, the little people in the alleys: the downtrodden people, going out and helping them with my image.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

In a world of injustice there's going to be dreams of justice.

I am going to fight for important things.

Martin Luther King's legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

We've got to understand that all disenfranchised people have something in common...The pursuit of justice really is about equality for everyone.

There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.

While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.

We are never assured of justice without a fight.

In the words of Frederick Douglas, power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will. We must be that demand. We are the ones we've been waiting for.

Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.

LISTEN: If you ever wondered what you would do if you were alive in the Civil Rights Movement, NOW IS THE TIME to find out. NOW. RIGHT NOW.

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.

If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.

I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.

Whoever defends his own rights defends the rights of all.