Hafez Al-Assad Quotes

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

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

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

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

My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.

An oppressed people will always rise.

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.

Peoples, hear the signal! Arise, for the last battle The International Fights for the Rights of Man! No higher being can save us, No God, no Kaiser, nor tribune Saving us from misery we ourselves alone must do!

No doubt it is also necessary to improve the classes who now oppress you, but you will never succeed in doing this unless you begin by improving yourselves.

This League of Nations, whatever its name, can be nothing else than a coalition of powers hostile to the workers and enemies of liberty; a Holy Alliance founded to crush the social revolution which is daily gaining ground.

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 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.

The workers and peasants must, as quickly as possible, seize everything that was created by them over many centuries and use it for their own interests.

For the oppressed peoples and classes, for the peoples and workers who have taken control of their destiny, Marxism is a shining path, a sun of hope and certainty that never sets, a sun that is always at its zenith.

When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust.

Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

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

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

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

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.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

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