Marge Piercy Quotes

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.

No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other and the rest of the world can go to hell.

We honor those who walked so we could run. We must run so our children soar. And we will not grow weary.

Let it be said to our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we didn't turn our back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.

I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death.

We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father's name.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.

One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option.

Neither God, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical, that promise success .... Brethren, arise, arise! Strike for your lives and liberties.... Let your motto be resistance, resistance, resistance!

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

The greatest Glory of a free-born People is to transmit that Freedom to their Children.

Forward, without ever turning back. ... All wars of independence have been obliged to suffer terrible tests.

Nelson was locked up on Robben Island, and wives like me had been warned we would bring our husbands home as corpses from that place. But I always believed he would be released. It was my duty to have a home ready for us.

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart.

The fight's the fight.

Keep working and saving and striving for a better future for your children, and for their children, even if you won't be around to see it pay off.

I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.

Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical that promises success.

No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person.

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.