Liberation Struggle Quotes

Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.

I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people’s rights to get married, join the Army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.

I have a small Thai boy who dresses me and every year I let him pick what campaign I am going to work on. It saves me having to worry about it and, bless him, it makes him feel involved in the struggle for global liberation.

Friends, Comrades and fellow South Africans. I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.

Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! [...] You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

The people have now come to realize that the only way to deal with the oppressor is to deal on our own terms and this was done.

Slavery will not be overthrown without excitement, a most tremendous excitement.

Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined.

I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.

Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.

... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation.

Our main goal as Iraqi people is to drive the occupation out in any way.

...the evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it will surely come to its end with the complete emancipation of the Black people.

Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.

Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on

Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal

If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.

This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement in the struggle for their liberation. And in the struggle this pedagogy will be made and remade

It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime.

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984

The struggles to overturn colonial rule were long and often bitter. But, over time, most were inevitably successful.

All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.