George Jackson Quotes

I aint dead, I aint done, I ain't scared, I aint run, no matter what, no matter what, Still I stand

If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.

It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.

You haven't broken me Taker, you haven't broken me, I'm still standing.

An injured lion still wants to roar.

Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.

I'd rather die than let somebody get the better of me.

Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.

I have a child to feed and a spirit that can't be crushed, so I'm able to move ahead.

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise

Man. I've been through a lot as a kid. But at the same time that upbringing just made me stronger and made me more determined to make it out of where I made it out from and just fight extra hard to not go back.

Do I give up? No.

I had a choice whether to live or die, and I chose to live.

I have always fought for respect, I have always fought for survival, so fighting is nothing new to me.

Life kicks you hard but you have to be a man to come back.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

I'm not easily scared; from the age of 8, I learned what it means to have everything you know taken away and what it means to persevere. I approach politics the same way.

You back me into a corner, I'm not going to lay down and die. I've been down that road too many years in my life.

I've had to be tough my whole life.

I'm fighting cancer and I refuse to give up.

I will never quit. My nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down i will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my enemies and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight.

Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.