Henning Mankell Quotes

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

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

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

The seed of revolution is repression.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stand up and protest.

Neither God, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical, that promise success .... Brethren, arise, arise! Strike for your lives and liberties.... Let your motto be resistance, resistance, resistance!

The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise.

Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number — Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you — Ye are many — they are few.

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

When people rise, they must have a goal worthy of them. Must paltry goods be of concern to them?... The people must rise up not to collect sugar, but to bring down the tyrants.

Movements don't die, because struggle doesn't die.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

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