Silent Injustice Quotes

#1. The great Islamic nation cannot ... be indifferent and remain silent on the injustice done to you. The Islamic nation is required to assist you in any way it can.

Ali Khamenei

#2. It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.

Macklemore

#3. Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There's something beneath the outrage - an unwillingness to be silent in the face of ignorance, hatred or injustice. Outrage may not always be productive, but it is far better than silence.

Roxane Gay

#4. I don't fear death; I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice. I am young and I want to live. But I say to those who would eliminate my voice: I am ready, wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring.

Malalai Joya

#5. Keeping silent when you witness injustice is to act against your own spirituality, because nothing exists apart from your inner world.

Daniel Marques

#6. It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#7. I read in a book the following piece of wisdom: 'He who remains silent in the face of injustice is a mute Satan.' I went out into the streets and saw Satans everywhere.

Osama Alomar

#8. Real love cannot be silent in the face of injustice.

Mel White

#9. I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#10. I think silence is one of the failures of people today. When they see an injustice or intolerance, and they stay silent - that's the worst thing.

Anonymous

#11. Most pastors railing against gay marriage have never cried out on racism, any type of injustice or police brutality. They've never once made a statement about health care. Many of them are silent on community issues. They are very silent, but they have become the leaders of this particular movement.

Otis Moss III