Notable Quotable 229

Mar 15, 2024

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.

- Pierce Brown, Red Rising

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

- Voltaire

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

- Charles Darwin

Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

- Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

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It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.

- E.A. Bucchianeri

It takes great courage to open one's heart and mind to the tremendous injustice and suffering in our world.

- Vincent A. Gallagher

It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it.

- Erin Gruwell

How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others inside us. We are all moved by injustice and discrimination. We are all, inside, concerned human beings. We all want to give more than to receive. We all want to live in a world where solidarity and companionship are more important values than individualism and selfishness. We all want to share beautiful things; experience joy, laughter, love; and experiment, together.

- Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.

- Aristophanes, Plutus