Frantz Fanon Quotes

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

A little rebellion is a good thing.

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle....goa ts are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

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

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

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

History dictates that unresponsive governments force ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest

Dissociate yourselves from the satanic administration, and you will bring it to its knees. You will not have to lift a finger, let alone a stick or stone.

Without rebellion, mankind would stagnate, and injustice would be irremediable.

The character of Robin Hood stands for the deep anger of the dispossessed against the ruling classes.

If too many people feel excluded from the system and cannot access its benefits, they will ultimately rebel against it.

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks.

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

I ask you and all the leaders of the world: Would you act differently, would you keep silent and do nothing if you were in our place? Would you not resist if you were allowed no rights in your own country because the color of your skin is different to that of the rulers, and if you were punished for even asking for equality? I appeal to you, and through you to all the countries of the world, to do everything you can to stop the coming tragedy. I appeal to you to save the lives of our leaders, to empty the prisons of all those who should never have been there.

It is right to rebel against reactionaries.

Shall we longer bear these cruelties which have been heaped upon us for the last ten years in the face of heaven, and in open violation of the constitution and law of these United States and of this state? God forbid! I will not bear it. If they take away my rights, I will fight for them manfully and righteously until I am used up. We have done nothing against the rights of others.

There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.