Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Quotes

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

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

Freeing oppressed nationalities is perhaps the most dangerous of all philanthropic enterprises.

We should never say that we recognize the right of these mullahs to oppress their own people.

The glorious spectacle of eighteen millions of people, struggling to burst their chains and be free.

God never made a tyrant, or a slave.

You will be emancipated from tyranny and oppression …

Everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal,” and everything the Hungarian Freedom Fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.”

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand…. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty

We have to continue our progressive struggle and defeat the conspiracies of dictatorship.

The struggle for freedom and human rights is universal and Canada used to be a leader.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.

No people to whom liberty is given can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.

I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

I love the people of Venezuela. I want that country to have freedom. I want it to have human rights and to be banned by a dictator like Nicolas Maduro is, to me, a badge of honor.

When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.

A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.