Winnie Byanyima Quotes

No right dies so long as someone demands it.

You can't expect to go about change - especially change of this nature, when you talk about racial equality and justice - you can't expect to go about or engage in that without resistance, and so you're going to have some people who aren't on board.

Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.

I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.

I'm not quite sure precisely when social and political activism became a visible brand of my DNA, but it seems to me that I was born into it. It is hard to be born into the experience in the world of poverty and not develop some instinct for survival and resistance to those things that oppress you.

I grew up thinking the most decent job to do was to fight injustice.

I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.

The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

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

The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power.

So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds.

We have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.

I'm not any kind of social reformer.

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

Our chief aim as public-spirited citizens must be neither to avoid trouble, nor to stay out of jail, nor even to preserve our lives, but to keep on fighting for our fundamental principles and ideals.

We are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression. My address is like my shoes; it travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

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

I'll continue fighting as long as these social injustices exist.