Sergei Udaltsov Quotes

Our solidarity will be threatened by them just so long as you do not wake up and refuse to allow them to represent you.

He who once became aware of the power of Solidarity and who breathed the air of freedom will not be crushed.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more.

An oppressed people will always rise.

We have been saying "Freedom" for six years. What we are going to start saying now is "Black Power". We have begged the President. We've begged the federal government. That's all we've been doing, begging and begging. From now on, when they ask you what you want, you know what to tell them.

I can make this march, and I will make Georgia howl.

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

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

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

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

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!

Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.

Power Concedes Nothing

It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them... 'Black Messiah' is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.

Idea of holding each other’s hands at the Women’s March—it feels like we are being invited to do that every day. So many of us are feeling attacked, whether it’s a woman’s right to choose or headstones in a Jewish cemetery, immigrants being deported or banned. So many of us feel the need to protect and defend our democracy. And march toward the dream of being “We the people.” So that’s exciting, scary, and frustrating. We’re awake. We are awake more than ever before, and we have to stay awake.

And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet company will sing and sing back into the mountains and if necessary even under the sea: we are the ones we have been waiting for.

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