Elie Wiesel Quotes

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

We are revolutionists from head to foot; revolutionists we were; revolutionists we are; revolutionists we shall remain until the very end.

It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.

Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion - we're leading a revolution. And today the battle begins.

Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine oclock.

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

An oppressed people will always rise.

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

Neither God, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical, that promise success .... Brethren, arise, arise! Strike for your lives and liberties.... Let your motto be resistance, resistance, resistance!

The function of a progressive is to keep on protesting until things get so bad that a reactionary demands reform.