Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation.

Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! [...] You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

It is so sad that it takes so long for people to understand what needs to happen in order to be free.

Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever have… redemption songs; redemption songs.

Sometimes you have to fight in order to be free.

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

Let us fight to free the world!

If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others.

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.

Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.

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.

We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.

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

The glorious spectacle of eighteen millions of people, struggling to burst their chains and be free.

Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.

The struggle now is the struggle for our emancipation; the struggle now is the struggle for our independence. Joy Bangla!. Since we have given blood, we will give more blood. God-willing, the people of this country will be liberated...Turn every house into a fort. Face (the enemy) with whatever you have…. This time the struggle is for our freedom!

There is no easy walk to freedom.

The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.