John Stuart Mill Quotes

Let us not despair; it is a blessed cause, and success, ere long, will crown our exertions. Already we have gained one victory; we have obtained, for these poor creatures, the recognition of their human nature, which, for a while was most shamefully denied. This is the first fruits of our efforts; let us persevere and our triumph will be complete

We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

No one can live under degradation.

We’re not occupiers. We’re liberators.

Human rights are being exalted over victory.

A group oppressed, is a group enslaved ….Whenever a group, a community of people, in unison, feels that it is being oppressed, and that it wants to control its destiny, then that community has a moral right to seek effective redress, or demand to control its own destiny as appropriate

Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men—nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.

Our aim in waging the war in the [Middle] East was to ensure the complete and final emancipation of all those people so long oppressed by the Turks, to establish national governments and administrations which shall derive their authority from the initiative and free will of the peoples themselves

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

Death is better than slavery.

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.

Emancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks.

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.

There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.