Malcolm Wallop Quotes

Democracy is not what we hate the most and what we fear the most. We need to stand up.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

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

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: 'Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.'

The best hope to smash Fascism in the world.

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

If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It

Political evils must be sorely felt before they can be removed.

Power Concedes Nothing

If god is the root cause for our degradation destroy that god. If it is religion destroy it. If it is Manu Darma, Gita, or any other Mythology (Purana), burn them to ashes. If it is temple, tank, or festival, boycott them. Finally if it is our politics, come forward to declare it openly

We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you'll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you're going to have to keep on saying that. You're going to have to say that I am a proletariat; I am the people.

We will change things if people stand up for what they believe in against injustice and death to save themselves and the future of America - and the world.

We will stay in the streets until we have freedom for Venezuela.

Protest is political. It is as political as what our conception of America is.

Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing up for basic human rights in a repressive society was preferable to the safety of a quiescent life in servitude

Let us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom.

Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.

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

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.