Quotes about Accountability
It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, Wait on time.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words 'Too Late'.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
No problem is solved when we idly wait for God to undertake full responsibility.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the wellbeing of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
No woman is responsible for altering the psyche of her oppressor, even when that psyche is embodied in another woman.
— Audre Lorde
We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
— Ayn Rand
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
— Ayn Rand
To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.
— Ayn Rand
If lightning strikes a rotten tree and it collapses, it's not the fault of the lightning.
— Ayn Rand