Ally Condie Quotes

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

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

I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

An oppressed people will always rise.

The seed of revolution is repression.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

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

If officials are too forceful, people will revolt.

What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes

Tyranny may precipitate a revolutionary movement at any time.

The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

It is no longer possible to satirize this state of affairs. Every satire risks becoming a bible for yet another national liberation front. Every satirist risks becoming the founder of a new religion, a Buddha, Zarathustra, Jesus, Muhammad or Marx. Every exposure of the ravages of the dominant system, every critique of the system's functioning, becomes fodder for the horses of liberators, welding materials for builders of armies

The abolition of man-made laws cannot be achieved only through preaching. Those who have usurped the authority of God and are oppressing God's creatures are not going to give up their power merely through preaching.

There is no point in resistance until the Americans arrive.