Laura Minnie Cornelius Kellogg Quotes

So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more.

We will not leave this place until our comrades are free. We are the power here. We are the power.

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!

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.

He who once became aware of the power of Solidarity and who breathed the air of freedom will not be crushed.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

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.

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

I like to be able to raise people's consciousness, yes. And to remind that those of us involved in the receiving end of the oppression, we have a duty.

Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.

An oppressed people will always rise.

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.

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

I am the voice of my people.

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stand up and protest.

My hatred is precious. I don't want to waste it on those who are colluding in their own oppression.

You know, one of the ways we adapted to not being free was to think that our group identity was again, the way we were being black, and being down with the cards. That was the way we were going to get it. Unity was everything.

Movements don't die, because struggle doesn't die.

It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them... 'Black Messiah' is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.

Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!

When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.