Kombo Mason Braide Quotes

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand…. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

The democratic option is the only alternative to solving the Kurdish question. Separation is neither possible nor necessary. We want peace, dialogue, and free political action within the framework of a democratic Turkish state.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

Our job is to make people free.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

The great appear great to us only because we are on our knees;, LET US RISE!

The glorious spectacle of eighteen millions of people, struggling to burst their chains and be free.

Rather die freemen than live to be the slaves.

You will be emancipated from tyranny and oppression …

All the efforts of Lafayette, Kosciuszko and Garibaldi, and all the faith of Mazzini, Mickiewicz and Michelet, were defeated by the fundamental truth that the people they sought to liberate and make happy were simply not interested.

In all the Arab countries I have been in, the people have said that they were not demonstrating for food. They wanted dignity.

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

Our bodies are held captive, but our pursuit of freedom cannot be contained.

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.

We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.

If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.

I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

Death is better than slavery.

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

People have to liberate themselves, because liberation is not a single act. It's a question of eternal vigilance. Otherwise, you'll just become enslaved by someone else.

You'll be free or die!

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.