John Maynard Keynes Quotes

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

I never wanted the government to feel my pain. I wanted it to feel my boot in its butt.

Kill As Many Of Us As You Want. We Are Not Going To Die

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

I don't fear death; I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice. I am young and I want to live. But I say to those that would eliminate my voice: I am ready, wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring.

They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.

They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed.

They claim that I'm violent just cuz I refuse to be silent.

I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.

We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

I refuse to be silenced.

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

We will not go. The only way to get us there is to come in here with clubs and knock us on the head, and drag us out and take us down there dead.

Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

a government which goes counter to the will of the nation must be overthrown at once... It is dangerous to drive the people to despair and force them to demand by violence that which they as yet seek only by constitutional means.

History dictates that unresponsive governments force ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority!