Constance L. Rice Quotes

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

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

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.

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

An oppressed people will always rise.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

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

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence.

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

The oppressed have no alternative—for they have no power—but to fight.

When people rise, they must have a goal worthy of them. Must paltry goods be of concern to them?... The people must rise up not to collect sugar, but to bring down the tyrants.

Agitated by revolutionary movements, these grow in proportion to the force that resists them.

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.

I've always been proud that I come from people who were activists, who have this indomitable spirit. I am proud to have inherited the spirit of resistance and revolution.

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.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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

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.

The best hope to smash Fascism in the world.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.