Fighting For Social Justice Quotes

#1. I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.

George Papandreou

#2. It finally happened, he thought as he burrowed under his shirt and took hold of his heavy cross. All his life he'd wondered why he'd never fallen in love, and now he knew: He'd been waiting for this moment, this woman, this time. The female is mine, he thought. - Manny

J.R. Ward

#3. My distant past, that is. The last time we were together he said he'd leave me to figure things out in my own time, and a lot of that sort of time has passed.

Kristina Wright

#4. I don't have to do nothing you say, you old heifer cow. And you are old. Really, really old. And a cow, too. (Simi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. By exposing the hidden dream-thoughts, we have confirmed in general that the dream does continue the motivation and interests of waking life, for dream-thoughts are engaged only with what seems to be important and of great interest to us.

Sigmund Freud

#6. Doomed to Hell. Every last one of you.

June Ahern

#7. Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare ... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism.

Arnaud Desplechin

#8. When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.

Eva Longoria

#9. When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

Bob Kerrey

#10. Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights.

Garry Kasparov

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

Richard Rorty

#12. The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.

Benazir Bhutto

#13. I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.

Hermann Hesse

#14. Be grateful for your problems, for they stimulate an "I-can-solve-it" attitude.

Mark Victor Hansen

#15. It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene.

Janet Fitch

#16. Followers of trails and of seasons, breakers of camp in the little dawn wind, seekers of watercourses over the wrinkled rind of the world, o seekers, o finders of reasons to be up and be gone ...

Saint-John Perse

#17. Junior athletics is but one facet of the real gem: life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.

David Foster Wallace

#18. Fighting for social justice is not about leaving the mainstream. It is about being right in the middle of it.

Michael Skolnik

#19. If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it.

Howard Zinn

#20. The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you win.

I. F. Stone

#21. Music and the arts feed our souls, but a decent wage puts food on the table. Musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations are a potent force to fight for social justice.

Tom Morello