Rosa Parks Quotes

Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.

The struggle of our people for freedom has progressed to the form where all of us must take a stand either for or against the freedom of our people You are either with Your People or against them. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.

I'm going to fight for human rights, whether I do it silently behind the scenes or vocally so that I get locked up. I can't just sit back; it's not in my nature. I can't sit back and blindly ignore it, and I won't.

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

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.

We must stand up and do everything we can for the people who do not have a voice.

I've worked for everything I've had, and I can't think of a better way of using it than standing up for what's right, and what's required to build a better society.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick.

You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.

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

I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.

I seek … the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.

So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds.

Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.

Look at what I've done my entire life. I have been working on behalf of civil rights, women's rights, human rights for years and I know how challenging it is to change our political system and I have the highest regard for those who have put themselves on the line.

All over this world people are standing up for freedom.

I am not here to speak against the Taliban. I'm here to speak up for the right of every child.

If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

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.

I find myself moved by social justice issues. I'm not sure where that will lead me. I'm willing to nurture it.