Charlton Heston Quotes

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

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!

When a people consider themselves compelled by circumstances or by oppression, to appeal to arms and resort to their natural rights, they necessarily submit their cause to the great tribunal of public opinion.

If our Constitution is destroyed, if our right to free speech is denied, then we have the right to use whatever means necessary to survive and advance our position.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is the history of resistance.

I was making Molotov cocktails long before I knew the name for them.

My father believed in armed struggle.

We have dedicated our lives, our blood, to the freedom and liberation of our people, and nothing, no force can stop us from achieving our goal. If it is necessary to destroy the United States of America, then let us destroy it with a smile on our faces.

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to give man liberty, to clothe him in all his just rights, I am on the side of that rebellion.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.

An oppressed people will always rise.