Hugo Chavez Quotes

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

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

I got a tattoo saying, 'Freedom From Fear' because of 'Black Water Transit.'

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

An oppressed people will always rise.

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

Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.

History teaches us that the great revolutions aren’t started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better—and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.

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.

Dare! — this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

We were not defeated. We had been refugees. Now we were freedom fighters.

A little rebellion is a good thing.

To dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions.

You can Jail a Revolutionary but you can't jail the Revolution. You can run a freedom fighter around the country, but you can't run freedom fighting around the country. You can murder a liberator, but you can't murder liberation.

It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in

I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

You'll be free or 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.

If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.

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