Quotes About Resistance

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

I was born to give the white man hell, and I will give him hell from the cradle to the grave.

We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men

The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's Church. She does not call the native to God's ways but to the ways of the white man, of the master, of the oppressor.

Men should not petition for rights, but take them

Usually, it is man who attacks; as for me, I defend myself, and I often capitulate.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.

For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

When one man says, "No, I won't," Rome begins to fear.

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.

Chocolate is the divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole day without food.

We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.