Martin McGuinness Quotes

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

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

We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

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

We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.

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

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

An oppressed people will always rise.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

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

The best hope to smash Fascism in the world.

The removal of a tyrant is not merely justifiable; it is the highest duty of every true revolutionist.

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stand up and protest.

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!

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression. My address is like my shoes; it travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Dissociate yourselves from the satanic administration, and you will bring it to its knees. You will not have to lift a finger, let alone a stick or stone.

As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.

I'm proud to be part of the resistance.

It takes all sorts of people to come together to fight tyranny. It's not about one race anymore.

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.

Injustice has exhausted people but also pushed them to organize and fight back in very sophisticated ways.