Bobby Sands Quotes

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

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.

You can Jail a Revolutionary but you can't jail the Revolution. You can run a freedom fighter around the country, but you can't run freedom fighting around the country. You can murder a liberator, but you can't murder liberation.

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

It is no longer possible to satirize this state of affairs. Every satire risks becoming a bible for yet another national liberation front. Every satirist risks becoming the founder of a new religion, a Buddha, Zarathustra, Jesus, Muhammad or Marx. Every exposure of the ravages of the dominant system, every critique of the system's functioning, becomes fodder for the horses of liberators, welding materials for builders of armies

There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.

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

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

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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

An oppressed people will always rise.

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

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

The seed of revolution is repression.

Our battle is against the bourgeoisie as the enemy of German Socialism and the saboteur of national freedom.

Agitators are a set of interfering meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary.

The revolution... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

For we went, changing our country more often than our shoes In the class war, despairing When there was only injustice and no resistance

A political movement is that in which the proletarians as a class exert pressure against the ruling classes.

The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise.

If you are going to organize and ask for commitment, you cannot go to the most desperately poor. They are not likely to take action. If you stand on a man's head and push it into the dirt, he may not even see the heel of your boot. But if his whole face is already above ground, he can see your heel and he can see freedom ahead.

I've always been proud that I come from people who were activists, who have this indomitable spirit. I am proud to have inherited the spirit of resistance and revolution.