Carolina Maria de Jesus Quotes

The struggle of our people for freedom has progressed to the form where all of us must take a stand either for or against the freedom of our people You are either with Your People or against them. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

It is the duty of every human to fight for the freedom of others, We have to continue to struggle for each other.

In my lifetime, I have seen how greater liberty, greater justice, and greater respect ultimately does prevail, but it prevails only when people are willing to fight for it and willing to lose for it.

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

The struggle for freedom and human rights is universal and Canada used to be a leader.

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

I see it as my duty to take a stand for the Iraqi people, for democracy, freedom and reconciliation.

We've got to understand that all disenfranchised people have something in common...The pursuit of justice really is about equality for everyone.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

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

We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom.

You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

The suffering of our people is greater than our differences. We are not yet free at last, so there is work to be done.

I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects anything that will not give people room for dissent.

Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.

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.

There are people out there that feel there are injustices being made and happening in the USA on a daily basis.

Laws that oppress people have no moral authority.

People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.

The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.

Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right.

Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.

I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.