Robin Morgan Quotes

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance.

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.'

The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise.

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.

What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!

We continue to resist the occupier militarily, culturally and by all means of the resistance.

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

I refuse to be silenced.

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

An oppressed people will always rise.

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!

Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number — Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you — Ye are many — they are few.

There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their spirits broken by those put here to break them. Then there are those who are here to break the laws that break the men who break the spirits of other men. I am one of those men. - Harry West

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust.

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come - it will, if his prayer is heard. A terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.

It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in