Jimi Hendrix Quotes

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.

I'll continue fighting as long as these social injustices exist.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

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

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

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

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

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

Let's face it: There are people who are extremists in every corner of society, and whatever flag they're waving is something Bad Religion has stood against.

I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you as I was outraged by Nazism, then people become militant, strong, and involved.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.

They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.

The seed of revolution is repression.

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.

…I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I rather like the role.

I'm a perpetually mad person. I hate injustice. As far as I'm concerned, I'm living to fight injustice. I'm living to fight the goddamned thing. I'm too mad to sleep.

I ain’t got no quarrel with the Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger.

For we went, changing our country more often than our shoes In the class war, despairing When there was only injustice and no resistance

A movement that doesn't produce a backlash isn't much of a movement at all.