Abba Kovner Quotes

If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.

Please don't tell me what I can't do.

I refused then like I do now to let anybody tie me down

I refuse to be pushed around anymore.

You'll be free or die!

You simply cannot conquer a people who don’t want to be conquered

Some people want to tell me what's right for me, and I have to stick up for myself all of the time.

Do not tell me what to do and do not tell me what I can't do.

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

I don't do nothing I don't want to do.

People have to liberate themselves, because liberation is not a single act. It's a question of eternal vigilance. Otherwise, you'll just become enslaved by someone else.

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

Freedom lies in being bold.

I can never consent to being dictated to.

I don't run behind authority.

One thing about me is that I don't like being told I can't do something.

There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'

When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

We prefer death to slavery.

We will implement what we want. What we do not want, no one can impose on us

Whether a miracle draws me out of here or I have to present myself on a scaffold, liberty and equality will be my first and last words…