Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.

Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

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

In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.

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

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

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

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

Better to starve fighting than to starve working.

The limits of tyrants are proscribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.

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 struggle is my life.

It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive.

... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation.

The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.

It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the teeth of the most terrifying odds achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity You come from a long line of great poets some of the greatest poets since Homer. One of them said "The very time I thought I was lost My dungeon shook and my chains fell off." You know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free. God bless you James and Godspeed.

Sometimes you have to fight in order to be free.

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow, but which from then till now has gone on remolding and regrappling the instruments of governmental power, that the Revolution sought to shape and hold as defenses of liberty.

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

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

Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value. We should be grateful to the Nadir, since they heighten the value of our liberty.

They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed.