Roy Bennett Quotes

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

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.

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

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

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

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

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.

Rights did not just fall out of the sky. They were the result of struggle.

Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.

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

If you are going to organize and ask for commitment, you cannot go to the most desperately poor. They are not likely to take action. If you stand on a man's head and push it into the dirt, he may not even see the heel of your boot. But if his whole face is already above ground, he can see your heel and he can see freedom ahead.

It was imperative to make common cause with the oppressed in order to secure a new system opposed to the ambitions and governing habits of the oppressors.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

We will change things if people stand up for what they believe in against injustice and death to save themselves and the future of America - and the world.

As I grew older and got into the late teens and early 20s, I wanted to be a voice of the people. You know, getting locked up all the time and going through so much oppression and seeing it all around myself, I wanted to be a voice for it.

I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.

... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation.

Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice and was willing to pay a huge price for that. That's the reason he's mourned today, because of that struggle that he performed I mean, what he was advocating for was not necessarily the right answer, but he was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people's lives, and Obamacare is front and center in that.

Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

Sometimes you have to fight in order to be free.

This music is about struggle. Reggae is a vehicle to carry a message of freedom and peace.

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.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.

True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.