Quotes About Resistance

Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.

My people are scared of the air around them, they always have an excuse not to fight for freedom.

You can't stop a revolution from breathin', so to beat 'em they offer people the illusion of freedom.

It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.

They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.

If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.

Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.

We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

I'm not an alcoholic, I am freedom fighter against the teetotal taliban.

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

We must raise and train an army of fighters for freedom.