Quotes related to staying silent during times of injustice

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

~ Rev Desmond Tutu

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

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The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

~ Albert Einstein

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.

~ Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

~ Meditation magazine, peace issue (p. 89)

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