Leonard Cohen Quotes

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.

Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

Every time a person sacrifices himself for a larger injustice, it aids in the cycle of change.

Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stand up and protest.

As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Run the Jewels, our role is this: We can provide some music and some swagger in the face of doom and in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.

I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist.

There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their spirits broken by those put here to break them. Then there are those who are here to break the laws that break the men who break the spirits of other men. I am one of those men. - Harry West

Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.

People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in

We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.