Barry McGee Quotes

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

In all of history, there has always been a time and a place where patriots rise up against the decree of the elites and shout, 'No more... get your hands off my freedom!'

I don't want to be a dissident. But in the same time, I don't want to go back home and be silent again.

Dissent is as American as cherry pie.

Our founding fathers declared independence from Great Britain because they were dissatisfied with the laws and policies that they believed abridged their freedoms. Had they taken the stance that many want our professional athletes to take - to just shut up and honor your country no matter what - we would be living in British colonies.

Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.

If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.

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.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.

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

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

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

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

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.

I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

An oppressed people will always rise.

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.