Ani DiFranco Quotes

To hold a pen is to be at war.

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

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.

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

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

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

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

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

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!

Only force would produce social change.

Your body is a battleground.

Mankind has conceived history as a series of battles; hitherto it has considered fighting as the main thing in life.

Violence is the only language understood by Mr. Lloyd George and his ministers.

This non-violent stuff ain’t no good. It’ll get you killed.

Yoiu have to fight in order to live in peace.

Hate is a powerful energy. If you want to do anything, resist hate. Resist it.

History doesn't give credence for resorting to violence to have your voice heard.

Fighting is worldwide. Fighting is fighting, everyone understands what it is.

I have come to fight for peace, and I will not give my hand to those who try to turn the word 'peace' into a dirty one.

Fighting is great, but I can't do it forever.

I'd rather fight than eat.

Fighting for ourselves means manufacturing our own weapons of self-defense.

Fight them everywhere. Don't give them a chance to breathe until they withdraw and retreat.

I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.