Juan Guaido Quotes

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

The best hope to smash Fascism in the world.

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

An oppressed people will always rise.

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

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

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.

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!

Dare! — this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

Agitated by revolutionary movements, these grow in proportion to the force that resists them.

I'm proud to be part of the resistance.

We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you'll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you're going to have to keep on saying that. You're going to have to say that I am a proletariat; I am the people.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion.

Democracy is not what we hate the most and what we fear the most. We need to stand up.

We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.

Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

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

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

I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.