Ho Chi Minh Quotes

The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.

In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.

Let us hasten to break the chains of those victims who groan in their dungeons, awaiting salvation at your hands! Do not abuse their confidence! Do not turn a deaf ear to the lamentations of your brothers! Let us fly quickly to avenge the dead, to give life to the dying, freedom to the oppressed and liberty to all!

In the end, madness is worse than injustice, and justice far sweeter than freedom.

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You would only free something else to destroy us both.

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

Emancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time.

They can send us to prison, but they cannot silence us. The truth cannot be silenced.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

That king who through folly rashly oppresses his kingdom, (will), together with his relatives, ere long be deprived of his life and of his kingdom. As the lives of living creatures are destroyed by tormenting their bodies, even so the lives of kings are destroyed by their oppressing their kingdoms

The warden strapped these men into the electric chair / the executioner threw the switch / and set them free into the wind / they are free of the dreams now / free of the greasy prison denim / their voices blow back in a thousand lingoes singing one song / to burst the eardrums of Massachusetts.

Our time has come in this country to go to prison. We'll go to prison, we'll die, but tomorrow our children must be free.

When freedom returns, so shall I.