Seneca the Younger Quotes

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny

Injustice never rules forever.

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand…. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

Our forefathers would think it's time for a revolution. This is why they revolted in the first place... They revolted against much more mild oppression.

When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.

When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust.

A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.At a point, one can only fight fire with fire

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves, as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway.

Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to give man liberty, to clothe him in all his just rights, I am on the side of that rebellion.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

Repression or oppression never yet succeeded in crushing the truth or redressing a wrong.

The record of Arab regimes is disgraceful and outrageous … worse than that of the occupier or the colonialist.

Rebellion! the very word is a confession; an avowal of tyranny, outrage, and oppression. It is taken from the despot's code, and has no terror for others than slavish souls.

Government is the common enemy. All weapons are justifiable in the noble struggle against this terrible curse.

the Distress of our oppressed Country, which now unjustly feels the baneful Effects of arbitrary Power.

If there be no right to rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then I am sure it is better for men to fight and die without right than to live in such a state of right as this.

Oppression makes a wise man mad.