Suzanne Collins Quotes

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can.

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.

To dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions.

There is a point in fighting. There is a point in struggle. Not wholesale revolution, maybe, that might not be possible, an absolutely just society, but there are plenty of spaces and places where it's worth putting up a fight.

Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’—I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry n’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build—why, I’ll be there.

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

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

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car ... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.

Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

I can give you nothing but my life. I wish that my last breath might be of use to my fellow citizens and that my head'[after she was guillotined], carried through Paris, might be a signal to rally all the friends of justice …. I have shown you the way. You know your enemies. Arise, march, and strike!

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

No right dies so long as someone demands it.

Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced from pressures from below.

I'll continue fighting as long as these social injustices exist.

I am said to be a revolutionist in my sympathies, by birth, by breeding and by principle. I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

Sisters, I ain't clear what you be after. If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?

If you ask me what is at the core of what I write, it isn't about 'rights', it's about justice. Justice is a grand, beautiful, revolutionary idea.