Bobby Sands Quotes

Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.

Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.

Don't give up, courage is my conviction.

You can take my life, but you'll never break me. So bring me your worst... And I will definitely give you mine.

From behind the shadow of the still small voice — more awful than tempest or earthquake — more sure and persistent than day and night — is always sounding full of hope and strength to the weariest of us all, Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.

But still, like air, I'll rise

Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for one year or two, but for several hundred years against aggression; that endured spoliations, famines, massacres in endless succession; that was clubbed many times into insensibility, but that each time on returning [to] consciousness took up the fight anew; a small nation that could never be got to accept defeat and has never surrendered her soul?

Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost. For that which they died to save can never perish. Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through. And man will go on. Man, not men. ~Equality 7-2521 (as Prometheus), pgs 103-104

I want to go to my grave a free man. Surviving against giants-that's victory.

I should at least mention that I am also discovering a degree of strength and of basic ability for humans to remain human in the direst of circumstances – which I also haven’t seen before. I think the word is dignity. I wish you could meet these people. Maybe, hopefully, someday you will.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

Free men are the strongest men.

Who can be forced has not learned how to die.

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.

Defeat, my defeat, my deathless courage, You and I shall laugh together with the storm, And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us, and we shall stand in the sun with a will, And we shall be dangerous

You cannot break the human spirit.

The struggles I'm facing, The chances I'm taking, Sometimes might knock me down, But no, I'm not breaking.

We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.

For everyone here in Ohio and across America who's been ever been counted out but refused to be knocked out, for everyone who has stumbled but stood right back up, and for everyone who works hard and never gives up -- this one is for you.

Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.

During the darkest periods in recent history, of course, the most subversive things you could do is think, read if you can get the material and remind yourself that love exists.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.