Sam Houston Quotes

What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe.

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!

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

The proper treatment of the original occupants of this land—the Indians is one deserving of careful study. I will favor any course toward them which tends to their civilization and ultimate citizenship.

I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They can not tell me.

The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent; and, in their property, rights, and liberty, they shall never be invaded or disturbed…

Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

We need more leaders speaking up for minority groups who have been marginalized and attacked.

World leaders and, particularly, Muslim religious leaders need to stand up and protect the oppressed.

I have in my bones, and in my blood, the knowledge that you have to help the people who are persecuted.

Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.

The Cherokees tried to do everything within the law and wished only to live in peace on their own lands. Yet they were cheated out of their birthright and treated as if they were less than human.

I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

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

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.

My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

No one who passively endures an injustice against himself has the material in him to struggle for the rights of others. The one who patiently forbears becomes an accessory to the injustice done to others. He who resists the injustice which he himself meets can open up the way to a higher right for others.

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.