Rosa Parks Quotes

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

I'm a perpetually mad person. I hate injustice. As far as I'm concerned, I'm living to fight injustice. I'm living to fight the goddamned thing. I'm too mad to sleep.

I don't want tea, I want justice!

If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco

We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

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

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

A boycott is the most peaceful and passive kind of protest there is and can be. We do not say we hate you or even say that you are wrong. We just say that we don’t want to ride your bus.

I feel there are injustices in the world that I'll stand up for, and I think that it's important to realize that the world is filled with these kinds of issues.

There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.

Injustice has exhausted people but also pushed them to organize and fight back in very sophisticated ways.

It's always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.

I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.

My brother and I met several times during that weekend trying to figure out what we were each going to do, and we met for breakfast the morning of the sit-in and I had decided that I was going to go get arrested, and he decided that he was going to have the harder job and go tell our parents that I'd been arrested.