Jeffery Goldberg Quotes

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

We talk about democracy and human rights. Iraqis talk about justice and honor.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

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.

The great appear great to us only because we are on our knees;, LET US RISE!

Who are we to judge the people of Ecuador? We cannot condemn people when they take to the streets.

You will be emancipated from tyranny and oppression …

When liberty is on the march, we ought to be with it.

Whether a miracle draws me out of here or I have to present myself on a scaffold, liberty and equality will be my first and last words…

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?

We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.

What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.

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

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

A group oppressed, is a group enslaved ….Whenever a group, a community of people, in unison, feels that it is being oppressed, and that it wants to control its destiny, then that community has a moral right to seek effective redress, or demand to control its own destiny as appropriate

When freedom returns, so shall I.

[On urban unrest:] The only way to get respect is to be willing to use violence.

By the force of our demands, our determination and our numbers, we shall splinter the segregated South into a thousand pieces, and put them back in the image of God and democracy.

Unmanacle the slave… unsceptre the despot… erect an altar on the Inquisition’s grace, to raise a people to the altitude of freedom.

We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for human rights.

I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.