Tupac Shakur Quotes

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up?

We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

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

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

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

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stand up and protest.

Don’t play with us. If you’re not going to give us justice, let us go so that we may help ourselves….We can’t want for benevolent white people to give us handouts.

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

I had the blessing of opportunity. You need the folks in the boardroom who have consciences and the people in the streets who can picket at the right time.

I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.

Players who take a knee during the national anthem do so to protest injustice across the country - fulfilling a patriotic duty to never accept injustice, but to call it out when we see it.

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

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.

It's the reason why I am always interested in engaging in people who are pushing us and pushing against the status quo. But having been an activist, the only thing that I'm always encouraging activists to do is, once you have raised the issue, and even through controversial means, you have to come behind it with an agenda and the possibility of reconciliation if power meets your demands.

There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their spirits broken by those put here to break them. Then there are those who are here to break the laws that break the men who break the spirits of other men. I am one of those men. - Harry West

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.

It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.

The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.