Robert Ley Quotes

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

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Until they put that sand and dirt in my face I will not sit in church all day.

You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

They can send us to prison, but they cannot silence us. The truth cannot be silenced.

I never wanted the government to feel my pain. I wanted it to feel my boot in its butt.

And do not acquiesce to the unjust …

The meanest worm that crawls upon the earth, when trampled upon, will endeavor to recoil and strike back, and I say that the guilt of the rebellion does not rest with these men [the Metis rebels] so much as those who provoked them.

The more I loved the king, the more I opposed his injustice until his brow fell lowering upon me. He heaped calumny after calumny on my head, and I chose to be driven out rather than to subscribe.

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

Shall we longer bear these cruelties which have been heaped upon us for the last ten years in the face of heaven, and in open violation of the constitution and law of these United States and of this state? God forbid! I will not bear it. If they take away my rights, I will fight for them manfully and righteously until I am used up. We have done nothing against the rights of others.

I don't fear death; I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice. I am young and I want to live. But I say to those that would eliminate my voice: I am ready, wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring.

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.

I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!

Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labours...then surely it is a braver, a saner and a truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men.

I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for. It was just time… there was opportunity for me to take a stand to express the way I felt about being treated in that manner. I had not planned to get arrested. I had plenty to do without having to end up in jail. But when I had to face that decision, I didn't hesitate to do so because I felt that we had endured that too long. The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.

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!

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

We shouldn't have all these campaigns to get the Birmingham Six released if they'd been hanged. They'd have been forgotten and the whole community would be satisfied.