Taylor Swift Quotes

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

An oppressed people will always rise.

Disobey the rules; ask for more; leave your wretchedness behind; organize with your brothers and sisters; never accept the hand of fate.

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!

A little rebellion is a good thing.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

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

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

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

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

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

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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

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

Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.

Only force would produce social change.

Dare! — this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

Heroism means going out of bounds. In this world things must go out of bounds from time to time... No one can desire that the world continue to muddle along in every respect in the groove into which imperfect laws and even more imperfect behavior have pushed it. Without heroic intervention no Council of Nicaea, no dethronement of the Merovingians, no conquest of England, no Reformation, no revolt of the Netherlands, no free America. The thing that counts is who intervenes, how and in the name of what.

It was imperative to make common cause with the oppressed in order to secure a new system opposed to the ambitions and governing habits of the oppressors.