A Few Quotes


"Every generation must out of its relative obscurity, discover its mission and either fulfil it or betray it" - Frantz Fanon

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."-Malcolm X

"When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire...or preserve his freedom." - Malcolm X

"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty" - Howard Zinn

"The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it." - Felix Morley

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little"- Edmund Burke

"Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." - Frederick Douglass

"If there is no struggle there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass

"Be not discouraged. There is a future for you...... The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . . . Only as we rise . . . do we encounter opposition." - Frederick Douglass

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them."
- Frederick Douglass