Jacob Zuma Quotes

The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.

Getting involved in politics was a quest for freedom.

I am a person who has never used violence himself. My present opinion is that people who have obtained the ballot should use it and solve their problems in that way. In the case of peoples who have not obtained the ballot, and who cannot control their states, I again find in my own mind a division of opinion, which is not logical, but purely a rough practical judgment. My own forefathers got their political freedom by violence; that is to say, they overthrew the British crown and made themselves a free Republic. Also by violence they put an end to the enslavement of the black race on this continent.

In my lifetime, I have seen how greater liberty, greater justice, and greater respect ultimately does prevail, but it prevails only when people are willing to fight for it and willing to lose for it.

The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.

To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectual challenge to analyze the world for the purpose of changing it.

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.

Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.

We have a legacy to uphold: the people who died so that we could have the right to vote; the people who sacrificed so that we would one day realize the dream of a black president.

Freeing oppressed nationalities is perhaps the most dangerous of all philanthropic enterprises.

We have achieved political democracy. Now we must make certain it reaches the minds and souls of our people.

The first step toward liberation is to use the power in hand ... and the power in hand is the vote.

The work does not end with the abolition of slavery but only begins.

… true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul. History tells us that every oppressed class gained true liberation from its masters through its own efforts.

Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.

You will be emancipated from tyranny and oppression …

It is the duty of every human to fight for the freedom of others, We have to continue to struggle for each other.

Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.

We have to continue our progressive struggle and defeat the conspiracies of dictatorship.

It is so sad that it takes so long for people to understand what needs to happen in order to be free.

I think about freedom and the urgency around our imagination. If you can't imagine it, you can't fight for it.

We will fight back until we have democracy.

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.

If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others.