Camille Desmoulins Quotes

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

An oppressed people will always rise.

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

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.

When people rise, they must have a goal worthy of them. Must paltry goods be of concern to them?... The people must rise up not to collect sugar, but to bring down the tyrants.

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

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

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

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

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

Fellow Peasants: No hand will after this day be above your hand… You are the producers. Yours is the power.

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.

If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

When you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves rather than looking to the oppressors to free us.

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues, even in a modified form, then the system must still be attacked until that injustice is eradicated.

The revolution... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.