Russell Simmons Quotes

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

It is the duty of every human to fight for the freedom of others, We have to continue to struggle for each other.

You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.

Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom.

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. This is the calling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response. Shall we say the odds are too great? Shall we tell them the struggle is too hard?

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

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

Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together.

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

All the political rights and liberties which people enjoy today, they do not owe to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength

Contrary to public understanding, Anarchism means 'peace on earth, good will to men'. Acts of violence done in the name of Anarchy are caused by men and women who forget to be philosophers - teachers of the people - because their physical and mental suffering drive them to desperation

Anarchy stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraints of government.

Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.

We are afraid to trust ourselves, and pretend that we are afraid to trust the people. My hopes have rested and always will rest upon the people …. The people will rise in their majesty, and the world will be interested in the spectacle.

Peoples, hear the signal! Arise, for the last battle The International Fights for the Rights of Man! No higher being can save us, No God, no Kaiser, nor tribune Saving us from misery we ourselves alone must do!

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

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.

Fellow Peasants: No hand will after this day be above your hand… You are the producers. Yours is the power.

Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.

It is so sad that it takes so long for people to understand what needs to happen in order to be free.

You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else's freedom and not worry about your own.

I think about freedom and the urgency around our imagination. If you can't imagine it, you can't fight for it.