Wole Soyinka Quotes

There is a time for all things—a time to preach, and a time to fight, and now is the time to fight.

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

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

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!

At the end of the day, violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.

This country is in a crisis. And if you're fighting to save this country, if you're fighting to take this country back, it's not going to be sunshine and patriots. It's going to be people who want to fight. I mean, Andrew Breitbart was all about the fight.

I was making Molotov cocktails long before I knew the name for them.

My father believed in armed struggle.

Pledge allegiance to the struggle.

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

Sometimes you must live in a violent world in order to get greater justice.

There is a point in fighting. There is a point in struggle. Not wholesale revolution, maybe, that might not be possible, an absolutely just society, but there are plenty of spaces and places where it's worth putting up a fight.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

I was a militant.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?