Fighting for Justice Quotes

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

I'm against genocide. I'm against fascism. I'm willing to fight against them so that, in that sense, I think one can still be committed to justice and committed to peace but recognize the circumstances under which one does have to fight.

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

It's not exactly courageous to be an anti-racist these days; a hundred years ago, it was.

It’s a new world, brother. And we, the downtrodden, are taking it back. (Madoc)

There are times when you have to fight for something you believe in, that you love.

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromising.

When you feel your family is being threatened and hurt, you speak up. And then you put your head down and go back about your business.

What's inspiring me the most [is] injustice. My own growth as a member of the human race, in terms of the veils being lifted, seeing more of the beauty and also the horror. A sense of my own purpose in this life. Love...

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

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

I've always identified [myself] with the warrior and good over evil, and you don't negotiate for good over evil, if you want peace and love, kill people that deny you that.

I am sick of defending myself, and I am not going to keep on doing it.

I'm a man that has a vision as to how this world can be, and I've gathered myself through all the ordeals that I had to make me a well-rounded person and still fight for justice.

It is never wrong to fight for what is right, never!

I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right.

We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.

Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

As a rule, he fights well who has wrongs to redress; but vastly better fights he who, with wrongs as a spur, has also steadily before him a glorious result in prospect--a result in which he can discern balm for wounds, compensation for valor, remembrance and gratitude in the event of death.

Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore

I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.