Steve Toltz Quotes

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

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority!

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence.

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

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

If we fail to see that there are powers that cause people to be bowed down in bondage, we are going to fight the wrong battle.

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.

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

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.

If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry we will not tamely submit - appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free . . . .

I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them.

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.

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!

I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male that was there, and was determining my life.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.