fight for liberation Quotes

This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!

That's our charge as ancestors of unborn generations: to once again become free.

In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.

You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless toil, not brutalized by every superstition and every fanaticism, a people of itself, and victor in the fight that is being waged today.

A liberation struggle is like a struggle against dirt. No matter what type of bath you takein three weeks you'll smell like you've never seen a bathtub. What we don't understand about a liberation struggle is you never win it, any more than you "win" clean dishes. As soon as you eat on them, the dishes are dirty again.

Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.

Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.