Fighting Inequality Quotes

To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.

When the cause is just, and there's been injustice, then it's easy to kind of galvanize your emotions and confront a guy.

Women can't wait for equal pay. And I won't stop fighting to address this inequality.

I refuse to be one of those people who watches injustices yet does nothing.

I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight While there is a drunkard left, While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!

I was victimized by the old Hollywood typecasting thing. I had to really fight to get out of it, so I was uncomfortable with it.

If there is something that determines my motivation in the work I do, it's the sense of injustice.

I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting for others, for middle-class families, for working class - for working people, you know, and that's a tradition and a commitment that I take very seriously.

We have got to stop being a society that turns our heads and looks the other way.

When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer.

I choose to identify with the underprivileged, I choose to give my life for the hungry, I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity . . . this is the way I'm going. If it means suffering, I'm going that way. If it means dying for them, I'm going that way, because I heard a voice saying DO SOMETHING FOR OTHERS.

My dad prepared me for the worst of times while also enabling me to succeed in the best. He taught me to confront the insidiousness of racism head on, no matter what the ramification, so it will not fester. Defeat it and get past it. That was The Talk. Nothing scared me after that.