Ted Kennedy Quotes

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.

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

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

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

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Never by my consent shall these rebels gain by this war increased political power, and come back here to wield that political power

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority!

If officials are too forceful, people will revolt.

Not one rebel or many rebels can change a government by force.

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!

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

That which is given in submission becomes a medium of defiance.

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

It is authority that provokes revolution....

Tarquin and Caesar each had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third may profit by their example ("Treason!" cried the Speaker of the House interrupting)—. If this be treason, make the most of it.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive, that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

I hold it blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it.

At the end of the day, violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.

I went to Boston fully expecting to be arrested - arrested by a polizia created by a government that my ancestors rebelled to establish.

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

I've never really subscribed to the theory that repression breeds rebellion. I don't think that's really true.