Emile Lahoud Quotes

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

An oppressed people will always rise.

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

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.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

The removal of a tyrant is not merely justifiable; it is the highest duty of every true revolutionist.

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!

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.

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.

A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build.

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.

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.

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

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

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

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

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.

The seed of revolution is repression.

The best hope to smash Fascism in the world.

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.

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