Will Rogers Quotes

When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

The tree of liberty could not grow were it not watered with the blood of tyrants

It is authority that provokes revolution....

I just long for the day I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lampposts and that they've got a proper government that represents the people of Saudi Arabia.

Power Concedes Nothing

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

Agitated by revolutionary movements, these grow in proportion to the force that resists them.

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

Social change cannot come above the intellect, it comes about by people suffering. And the more people are related to that, the more they lose respect for an existing government. They will seek another direction. If there are too many people who seek a new direction, then the existing government calls upon the army and police to manage society – that is called fascism.

The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George... Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security.

You can Jail a Revolutionary but you can't jail the Revolution. You can run a freedom fighter around the country, but you can't run freedom fighting around the country. You can murder a liberator, but you can't murder liberation.

There are forces more powerful and pervasive than the apparatus of war. You may chain a man, but you cannot chain his mind. You may enslave him, but you will not conquer his spirit. In every decade since the war Soviet leaders have been reminded that their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day will come when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks; the mortar crumbles; one day, liberty will dawn on the other side of the wall.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.