Shiva Ayyadurai Quotes

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stand up and protest.

I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression. My address is like my shoes; it travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

It takes all sorts of people to come together to fight tyranny. It's not about one race anymore.

Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!

You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again.

If one of us is chained, none of us are free...

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

The great appear great to us only because we are on our knees;, LET US RISE!

No people will be truly free until all are free.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear

It was imperative to make common cause with the oppressed in order to secure a new system opposed to the ambitions and governing habits of the oppressors.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

Is word, sound, and powa dat break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression an rule equality.

I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.

As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.

The suffering of our people is greater than our differences. We are not yet free at last, so there is work to be done.

God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle. Help us to keep lighting our little candles until a mighty torch of justice sweeps our nation and the world.

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.

They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.

We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.