Bob Marley Quotes

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

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

If the oppressor uses peaceful means, the oppressed will never resort to violence. But if the oppressor uses violence, then the oppressed have no other alternative than violence—to retaliate with similar forms.

Let me say as I've always said, and I will always continue to say, that riots are socially destructive and self-defeating. I'm still convinced that nonviolence is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom and justice. I feel that violence will only create more social problems than they will solve. That in a real sense it is impracticable for the Negro to even think of mounting a violent revolution in the United States. So I will continue to condemn riots, and continue to say to my brothers and sisters that this is not the way. And continue to affirm that there is another way.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks.

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle....goa ts are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

Power cedes nothing without a demand.

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.

I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.

Tommy moved on. "Lash, your people have been oppressed for hundreds of years. It's time to strike back. Look, you don't have your MBA yet - they haven't completely juiced you of your usefulness yet. Would Martin Luther King back down from this challenge? Malcolm X? James Brown? Don't you have a dream? Don't you feel good, like you knew that you would, now?

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

History dictates that unresponsive governments force ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

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

If officials are too forceful, people will revolt.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny

A movement that doesn't produce a backlash isn't much of a movement at all.

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

At the end of the day, violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.

Government violence can only do one thing and that is to breed counter-violence.

Violence is the only language understood by Mr. Lloyd George and his ministers.

We have to fight for what's right the same way the brothers and sisters that came before us did. The ultimate example, and there are many others, was The Stonewall Inn. They were pushed until they could take no more.

The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.