"I’m not here to tell folk just what they should know, I’m here to call on folk to understand that in a moral moment, there is no neutral. In a moral moment, there is no bystanders. You are either complicit in evil, you are either contributing to wrong, or you are fighting against it."
React to this quote
More by Cory Booker
See allResonant Thoughts
"Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government; the first government that said every church has exactly the same rig…"
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"Each of us who came here with wisdom must learn from this school. Heaven does not come from building beauti…"
— Bawa Muhaiyaddeen"I swear people don't want sex so much as they want somebody who'll listen to 'em … the first thing you lear…"
— Jane Wagner"The witch has been playing a semantic trick on us. We were already pretty salty animals when we came here! …"
— R. A. Lafferty"When it is stated in Genesis that God said to Adam, “Only from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil y…"
— Søren Kierkegaard"Methodical or rational education enhances accuracy, avoids guesswork, rejects everything that is unnecessar…"
— Georges Hébert"There are things I know I know about I don't write about, which I could not responsibly put into my books. …"
— Tom Clancy