Lalu Prasad Yadav Quotes

We will change things if people stand up for what they believe in against injustice and death to save themselves and the future of America - and the world.

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

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.

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

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.

We have to continue our progressive struggle and defeat the conspiracies of dictatorship.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

In my lifetime, I have seen how greater liberty, greater justice, and greater respect ultimately does prevail, but it prevails only when people are willing to fight for it and willing to lose for it.

A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build.

I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

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

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

Power to the peaceful!

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

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

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

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you as I was outraged by Nazism, then people become militant, strong, and involved.

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.