Ruta Sepetys Quotes

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.

While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve and hate will die unborn. Love and chains are broken.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand…. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.

Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

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

Our main goal as Iraqi people is to drive the occupation out in any way.

Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc.

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.

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

As long as there are men who would hate and destroy, we must find the courage to resist

That one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.

The war must go on to last man of this generation falls in his tracks … unless you acknowledge our right to self government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for independence, and that, or extermination, we will have

Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

You simply cannot conquer a people who don’t want to be conquered

There is no point in resistance until the Americans arrive.

You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again.

I never thought I would see a free South Sudan.

Love liberates you and gives you the power to make the impossible possible.

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

We are bound together by the most powerful of all ties, our fervent love for freedom and independence, which knows no homeland but the human heart.

Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate.

The future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

Love is the weapon of the future.