Abu Bakar Ba'asyir Quotes

Be committed to … smashing feudalists, conservatives, and imperialists who are "reactionaries".

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

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

Where were the saints to try and change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but do away with slavery?

Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.

If you ever think about me, and you ain't gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don't want myself on your mind if you're not going to work for the people.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

Leftism in all its forms must be halted and turned back resoundingly.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

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

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.

People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.

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

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it.

I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that's what I'm going to use.

You know, I'm not a revolutionary.

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

Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.