Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

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

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without becoming an autocrat.

You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again.

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust.

If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

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

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Authority is never without hate.

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

I would not like a king who could obey.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

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

What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes

The limits of tyrants are proscribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.

The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.