Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

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.

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!

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

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.

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.

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

I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns; and just as the Apostle Paul left his little village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every hamlet and city of the Graeco-Roman world, I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

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

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

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.

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

Charity is only a waystation on the road to 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.

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

I find myself moved by social justice issues. I'm not sure where that will lead me. I'm willing to nurture it.

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

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

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

No one who passively endures an injustice against himself has the material in him to struggle for the rights of others. The one who patiently forbears becomes an accessory to the injustice done to others. He who resists the injustice which he himself meets can open up the way to a higher right for others.

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

We are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

A riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality and humanity. And so in a real sense our nation’s summers of riots are caused by our nation’s winters of delay. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again. Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention.

I cannot sit by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.