H. L. Mencken Quotes

Somewhere, somehow, and by somebody, a beginning must be made and that the first act of resistance is always, and must be ever, premature, imprudent, and dangerous.

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

Martyrdom does not end something. It is only the beginning.

If you go up on a mountain and scream about change, you better make sure you're ready for people to come.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion - we're leading a revolution. And today the battle begins.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

My attitude is, do as much as I can while I'm free. And if I'm arrested I'll still do as much as I can.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

You know, I'm not a revolutionary.

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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.

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.