Jean-Bertrand Aristide Quotes

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

An oppressed people will always rise.

There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive…. During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world, I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebrations. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that-which is the foundation of activism.

It was imperative to make common cause with the oppressed in order to secure a new system opposed to the ambitions and governing habits of the oppressors.

A little rebellion is a good thing.

Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a t-shirt away

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

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

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.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

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

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

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

We will take up the ball of the Revolution where our fathers stopped it and roll it to the final consummation of freedom and independence for the masses.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

We are not rebels. Rebels defy authority and break laws at will.

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!

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

Only force would produce social change.

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. And then you win.

It is the moral force which carries a movement forward.

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.

The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

Anytime that someone defies the status quo and defies oppression, it feels like a step in the right direction.