Joe Slovo Quotes

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

Organize! Educate! Agitate!

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

I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution.

An oppressed people will always rise.

The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before it realizes its goals.

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

The revolution will stop at nothing. We have changed the nature of politics.

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.

Activists take the risks, while advocates are professional tinkerers with the system. What's necessary is for those who are advocates to support those who are activists and to envision themselves as activists.

If you ever think about me, and you ain't gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don't want myself on your mind if you're not going to work for the people.

We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you'll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you're going to have to keep on saying that. You're going to have to say that I am a proletariat; I am the people.

Movements don't die, because struggle doesn't die.

A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build.

You can Jail a Revolutionary but you can't jail the Revolution. You can run a freedom fighter around the country, but you can't run freedom fighting around the country. You can murder a liberator, but you can't murder liberation.

We are revolutionaries.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the exploited and the oppressed of the world, build a classless society, a world socialist federation.

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

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

Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.

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

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.