Quotes About Freedom struggle

Piracy is our only option.

I hope those who previously only thought of Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee regarding Hong Kong would now realise that the city is also a place fighting for democracy.

During the Cold War, tensions between the West and the Soviet Union affected virtually all countries worldwide. As a result, throughout Latin America, guerrilla groups emerged, seeking to destabilize military dictatorships and attain democracy, freedom, and policy reform - goals that they believed could not be achieved peacefully.

Free Tibet before free trade.

In Ethiopia, the problem is that you don't know who's who. You don't know who to trust. You don't have any freedom.

The War of Independence was not a heroic enterprise but the result of a political miscalculation.

You don't liberate a country standing on the soil of another.

We shall continue our fight for democracy and freedom because we do not accept that Hong Kong will be transformed into a police state.

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

We will continue civil disobedience to fight for democracy and for human rights in Hong Kong.

it was Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves, not John Brown. In 1859, John Brown was hanged, with federal complicity, for attempting to do by small-scale violence what Lincoln would do by large-scale violence several years later—end slavery.

The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

Law and order are never enough to keep a people dancing.

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

Draw your revolvers & bowie knives, & cool them in the heart's blood of all those damned dogs, that dare defend that damned breathing hole of hell," David Atchison, a former U.S. senator from Missouri, told cheering Southerners encamped outside Lawrence on May 21, "never to slacken or stop until every spark of free-state, free-speech, free-niggers, or free in any shape is quenched out of Kansas!" When

It is the positive practice of freedom, not the negative struggle against particular oppression, that has lifted me above a mutilated existence.

War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.

The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get up and go to the back of the bus.

You can't have occupation and human rights.

after Sammy struggles to unhook Stilton's bra] She rolled onto her face to give him a good shot at the hook in the back. Free my people! I will. I am the Harriet Tubman of your breasts.