Bobby Sands Quotes

The seed of revolution is repression.

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.

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

An oppressed people will always rise.

Tyranny may precipitate a revolutionary movement at any time.

I am said to be a revolutionist in my sympathies, by birth, by breeding and by principle. I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

A little rebellion is a good thing.

Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals.

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

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

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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

You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

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

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

“Order prevails in Berlin!” You foolish lackeys! Your “order” is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will “rise up again, clashing its weapons,” and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!

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.

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

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.