Independence Struggle Quotes

I didn’t fight the Belgians only to have my country colonized a second time.

No nation is ever ready for independence. How many Western states, including the United States of America, were ready for independence.

During [Simon] Bolivar’s own lifetime, his role changed dramatically, as Bolivar transformed from an anti-colonial populist to a dictator.

NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.

We moved to Zimbabwe when I was five, some years after Zimbabwe had gained independence.

Independence can only be obtained and secured by a nation that has its spirit raging with determination: Independence or Death!

Today the Turkish nation is called on to defend its capacity for civilization, its right to life and independence – its entire future.

The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire.

The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence.

Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.

It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?

My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.

I want to be able to raise my kid. I was totally being a martyr about it at first, thinking I could totally do it on my own, which I did for a while. I've hired a babysitter before, but as for a full-time caregiver... for a control freak like me, it ain't gonna happen!

When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.

The BBC is a victim of its own independence.

No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.

The freedom movement transformed the status of women. Women fought along with men as comrades. In the process, the shackles that had bound them fell away.

There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.

The Egba kingdom was one of the very last to be ceded to the British protectorate. It remained almost an independent entity within what is now known as Nigeria, simply because of its own traditional structure of governance.