There's Something Happening Here

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
~ Karl Marx

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin 

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
~ Assata Shakur

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.
~ Martin Luther King Jr. 

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Stand out. 

Someone has to. It is easy to follow along. It can feel strange to do or say something different. But without that unease, there is no freedom. Remember Rosa Parks. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow. 
~ Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century 

The world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... You must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want. 
~ Albert Cossery, The Jokers 

I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. The lunatics have taken over the asylum. Masked goons are dragging people from the street and throwing them into concentration camps. And there's no end to the cruelty.

Things are worse than bad. They're crazy.
~ Etienne de L'Amour 

Young or old, when you wake to news of bombs falling, genocide, and rising fascism—you’ll want to crawl back under the covers. That’s the point. They’d gladly keep you there, in the dark, while they profit from your silence. Throw the covers off. Shine a bright light. Let your voice be heard.
~ Lawrence Nault 

Ey, get up, stand up, stand up for your rights! 
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight!
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight! 
~ Bob Marley

Persisting isn't always safe, but it's often necessary. 
~ Octavia E. Butler 

Silence is complicity.