Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Quotes

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free.

Tyranny must be opposed at the start. Autocracy, once secured in the saddle, is difficult to dislodge.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

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

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

The Chinese people are not a new kind of human nature. Human nature in China is the same as it is elsewhere. When you start in a tyrannical regime to hand out freedom there is no place to draw that line and expect that line to hold. And so it’s only a matter of time before this regime comes down

When Tunisians overthrew Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 29 days and Egyptians Hosni Mubarak in 18 days, it was an appropriate rebuke to dictators and Bin Laden.

The price of toppling Gadhafi will be steep. But Libyans will topple him, and in doing so, they will bring down with him the castles of fear our dictators thought they had fortified.

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

When liberty returns, I will return.

Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to give man liberty, to clothe him in all his just rights, I am on the side of that rebellion.

The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future.

During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!'

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Give me liberty or give me death.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

a government which goes counter to the will of the nation must be overthrown at once... It is dangerous to drive the people to despair and force them to demand by violence that which they as yet seek only by constitutional means.

Do you trust the government? No? In that case, let’s overthrow it tomorrow.

The best hope to smash Fascism in the world.

Suppression? Persecution? The revolution was fought for this?

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

What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes