Solomon Burke Quotes

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

No people will be truly free until all are free.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

No man can be fully free while his neighbor is not.

We are one people, and we cannot let the power of darkness or Power, Priviledge, and Control - destroy the Light.

The suffering of our people is greater than our differences. We are not yet free at last, so there is work to be done.

No one is free until we are all free.

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

Emancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

When one person is enslaved, we're all enslaved.

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

The rights of all of us are diminished when the rights of any one of us are threatened.

Not a single slave is to be found among them, but all are free, exchanging services with each other, and they denounce the owners of slaves, not merely for their injustice in outraging the law of equality, but also for their impiety in annulling the statute of Nature, who mother-like bore and reared all men alike, and created them genuine brothers, not in mere name, but in very reality