Lupe Fiasco Quotes

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Protests are the very essence of America! It is a country founded in protest.

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!'

The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.

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.

Give me liberty or give me death.

Whenever an American requests to see me I comply, because I respect a people who acquired their freedom by firmness without excess.

Loyalty ... is a realization that America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent.

The people's flag is deepest red; It shrouded oft our martyred dead .... Then raise the scarlet standard high. Within its shade we'll live or die. Tho' cowards flinch and traitors sneer, We'll keep the red flag flying here.

I can give you nothing but my life. I wish that my last breath might be of use to my fellow citizens and that my head'[after she was guillotined], carried through Paris, might be a signal to rally all the friends of justice …. I have shown you the way. You know your enemies. Arise, march, and strike!

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Be it for the defense, or be it for the assertion of a nation’s liberty, I look upon the sword as a sacred weapon …. Abhor and stigmatize the sword? No, no, my lord, for at its blow a giant nation sprang from the waters of the Atlantic and by its redeeming magic, and in the quivering of its crimson light, the fettered Colony became a daring free Republic—prosperous, limitless and invincible.

The altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood

All of America is steeped in American blood, It was necessary to wash out so ingrained a stain, It is the first time this unhappy continent, always a land of desolation but not of freedom, dresses in honour...for freedom, I say the earth has been sown with arms – that earth which only a little time ago suffered the war of slaves

The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life.

Our country was founded on protest. Otherwise, we would still be a colony of England.

Our country was founded on protest. If it was just shut up and honor your country no matter what, we'd still be flying the Union Jack. That's not what our founding fathers did. They didn't like what was going on, and they broke away and formed their own country.

We will stay in the streets until we have freedom for Venezuela.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion.

We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

If the people of America do not rise up, take ownership of our country, we're going to lose it forever.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

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.