Margaret Kimberley Quotes

How many of you are willing to go to jail for freedom?

We are on the threshold of a significant breakthrough, and the greatest weapon is the mass demonstration.

Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.

He apologizes for injustice …. Belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions…. He should be unceasingly and firmly opposed.

I am a person who has never used violence himself. My present opinion is that people who have obtained the ballot should use it and solve their problems in that way. In the case of peoples who have not obtained the ballot, and who cannot control their states, I again find in my own mind a division of opinion, which is not logical, but purely a rough practical judgment. My own forefathers got their political freedom by violence; that is to say, they overthrew the British crown and made themselves a free Republic. Also by violence they put an end to the enslavement of the black race on this continent.

The March on Washington was not a climax but a new beginning.

We are at the point where we can mobilize all of this righteous indignation into a powerful mass movement.

Any time you do something - a protest - you know there's going to be backlash.

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken.

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

backlash

History dictates that unresponsive governments force ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

I’ve never been involved in a Civil Rights campaign that was not ill-timed

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

Mr. President, we are going to march on Washington. The people are restless. The Black masses are restless.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion

Before, the Negro in the South had always looked on the defensive, cringing. This time they were taking the initiative.

I want you to leave here with a sense of mission. Martin Luther King is waiting for you to march with him.

Let me say as I've always said, and I will always continue to say, that riots are socially destructive and self-defeating. I'm still convinced that nonviolence is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom and justice. I feel that violence will only create more social problems than they will solve. That in a real sense it is impracticable for the Negro to even think of mounting a violent revolution in the United States. So I will continue to condemn riots, and continue to say to my brothers and sisters that this is not the way. And continue to affirm that there is another way.

Gandhi protested against restrictive policies. So did 'Guru.'

We, the Desaparecidos, are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying.

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle....goa ts are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.