Wynton Marsalis Quotes

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

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

An oppressed people will always rise.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

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

It was imperative to make common cause with the oppressed in order to secure a new system opposed to the ambitions and governing habits of the oppressors.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

Our solidarity will be threatened by them just so long as you do not wake up and refuse to allow them to represent you.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

Neither God, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical, that promise success .... Brethren, arise, arise! Strike for your lives and liberties.... Let your motto be resistance, resistance, resistance!

I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression. My address is like my shoes; it travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

I'm proud to be part of the resistance.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!

Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.

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

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