“You can jail revolutionaries, but you can’t jail the revolution.
You might run a liberator like Eldridge Cleaver out of the country, but you can’t run liberation out of the country.
You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hutton, but you can’t murder freedom fighting.
And if you do, you’ll come up with answers that don’t answer,
explanations that don’t explain,
you’ll come up with conclusions that don’t conclude
And you’ll come up with people that you thought should be acting like pigs that’s acting like people and are instead moving on the pigs."
Fred Hampton
"When we revolt, it is not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we cannot breathe."
Frantz Fanon
"The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; only mobilizing the masses and relying on them can wage it."
Mao Tse-Tung (Zedong)
"When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right."
Simon Bolivar
"The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and well-being - that is the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for."
Fidel Castro
Thomas Sankara
"Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half of the people are held in silence. I sense the rumble of their storm and feel the fury of their revolt."
"Freedom in Capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in Ancient Greek republics; Freedom for slave owners."
Vladimir Lenin
“Where there is oppression there is resistance, and where oppression grows, resistance grows. Thus, yesterday Africans burned agricultural plantations in slave revolts; today they burn industrial cities in urban rebellions; tomorrow they will burn a technological nation in Revolution, but they will be Free!”
Kwame Ture
"Always remember that the people are not fighting for ideas, nor for what is in men’s minds. The people fight and accept the sacrifices demanded by the struggle in order to gain material advantages, to live better and in peace, to benefit from progress, and for the better future of their children. National liberation, the struggle against colonialism, the construction of peace, progress and independence are hollow words devoid of any significance unless they can be translated into a real improvement of living conditions.”
Amilcar Cabral
