I Get Back Up Again

To live without hope is to cease to live.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
~ Mahatma  Gandhi

There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
~ Leonard Cohen

Do not judge me by my success. Judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
~ Nelson Mandela

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
~ Emily Dickinson

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
~ Ernesto Che Guevara

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
~ Bob Marley

Start by doing what’s necessary, then do what’s possible,and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
~ Francis of Assisi

There is no education like adversity.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few. Ignoring these cries and failing to respond to this movement is simply not an option — for peace cannot exist where justice is not served.
~ John Lewis

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don’t speak out ain’t nobody going to speak out for you.
~ Fannie Lou Hamer

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
~ Aristotle

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
~ Haile Selassie

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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 1918–1956

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
~ Elie Wiesel