Jim Brown Quotes

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

We need to do more than just what is right. We need to join together and right what is wrong.

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

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

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!

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

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

By the force of our demands, our determination and our numbers, we shall splinter the segregated South into a thousand pieces, and put them back in the image of God and democracy.

No right dies so long as someone demands it.

Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.

We come to Selma to be renewed. We come to be inspired. We come to be reminded that we must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

People, whatever their profession is, have a right to fight for the right causes.

Whatever I do, it will be fighting for social justice.

As the daughter of a civil rights leader, I believe in the power that compels people to stand up for their freedoms, for justice and opportunity. I know that marching inspires people to take an active role in creating positive change for a better America.

You can't expect to go about change - especially change of this nature, when you talk about racial equality and justice - you can't expect to go about or engage in that without resistance, and so you're going to have some people who aren't on board.

I want to thank the fans across the country who have supported me in this effort to fight for equality and justice. I want to thank those that have dedicated their lives to this fight, as I know that it is not easy. And I want to challenge those who stay silent to be courageous and use your platforms to become part of the solution. God Bless.

I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.

If people take the fight for justice seriously in their own country and with partners and immigrants in their community and folks in the international community, I believe that we will see human rights for all people affirmed.

A more just world is possible.

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

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

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