Ruby Dee Quotes

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

It is the duty of every human to fight for the freedom of others, We have to continue to struggle for each other.

I have in my bones, and in my blood, the knowledge that you have to help the people who are persecuted.

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

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 a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that's what I'm going to use.

No man can be fully free while his neighbor is not.

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear

I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: "Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color.

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

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

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

To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .

My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have avote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling.

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.

If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

The fire in the bellies of the good people who work for a more fair and just world for all of us - that spark never fails to inspire me and warm my heart.

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

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

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.

I am passionate about human rights.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.