George Jackson Quotes

It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in

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

An oppressed people will always rise.

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

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!

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

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

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

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

Disobey the rules; ask for more; leave your wretchedness behind; organize with your brothers and sisters; never accept the hand of fate.

The removal of a tyrant is not merely justifiable; it is the highest duty of every true revolutionist.

Anytime that someone defies the status quo and defies oppression, it feels like a step in the right direction.

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!

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.

If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.

We continue to resist the occupier militarily, culturally and by all means of the resistance.

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance.