Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.
So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.
I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Historically, the most terrible things – war, genocide, and slavery – have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.
You can’t be neutral on a moving train.
Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!
I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.