Vic Mensa Quotes

I'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed.

You Can't Kill the Spirit resonates with the voices and power of women around the globe who have refused to be either passive or violent but instead act firmly and imaginatively to oppose oppression in its many guises. A wonderful tonic for activists and a treasure for those who teach, these stories bring women's history to life.

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.

The fundamental driving force for me is to create a change in the world we live in... It is about exploitation, plundering and degradation. I have a small possibility to participate in the resistance. Most of the things that I do are part of a resistance, a form of solidarity work.

The common people who marched for the right to vote must now march for the right to breathe.

It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

I would have felt ashamed if I had not been part of the resistance and part of fighting back against the forces of the state.

Injustice has exhausted people but also pushed them to organize and fight back in very sophisticated ways.

I have chosen to kneel because I simply cannot stand for the kind of oppression this country is allowing against its own people.

The young girls of color that first encountered the 'me too' movement in community centers and classrooms and church basements were there not only because they needed a safe space, but because they needed their own space.

John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land in the Western [United States]; the perfidy of banks in foreclosing on poor people's homes; and the insurgent urge of the book's protagonist, Tom Joad, to speak truth to police power. 'Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy,' Tom promises, 'I'll be there.' In Salinas, Calif., Ferguson, Mo., or Staten Island, N.Y., Tom's truth goes marching on.

People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

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

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

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

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

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.

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.