Serj Tankian Quotes

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

Where there are breaches of human rights, you need to speak out about it, no matter where it is.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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!

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

Some must speak and some must be still so that we can listen to the voices of the just and the silence of the sinners.

We will have demonstrations until the injustices that have caused them are eliminated.

This could never be a crime in any society which deems itself enlightened.

I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.

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

I am not the least bit surprised that injustice persists. I'm also not surprised that resistance to injustice persists.

When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don't just shut up and say it's none of my business.

When things are not fair, I speak my mind.

I don't think rappers have a responsibility, but for me, I gotta say something. I can't just look at injustice and keep quiet.

Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, why don't the adults around here just say something? Say it so they know we don't accept segregation? I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there's no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.'

When I see a blatant injustice, I can't keep quiet. I've been that way since I was a little kid.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

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 that 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.

As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.