Freedom Struggle Quotes

We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for human rights.

Our battle is against the bourgeoisie as the enemy of German Socialism and the saboteur of national freedom.

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.

That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.

The glorious spectacle of eighteen millions of people, struggling to burst their chains and be free.

India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination.

I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.

By the blood that flows in my veins and upon my honor, I swear to God to free Brazil!

I'm not the only one working for democracy in Burma - there are so many people who have worked for it because they believe that this is the only way we can maintain the dignity of our people.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Jail has indeed become a heaven for us. To serve India in the battle for freedom is honor enough .... But to suffer for the dear country! What greater good fortune could befall an Indian.

God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.

It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence.

The movement from slavery to freedom is also a movement from security to insecurity of maintenance.

We will be free in complete liberty where the Bulgarian lives: in Bulgaria, Thrace, Macedonia; people of whatever ethnicity live in this heaven of ours, they will be equal in rights to the Bulgarian in everything

I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.

The real fight isn't left or right but between forces of democracy across the spectrum and the forces of tyranny.

Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the church, counted its martyrs by thousands..

This fight is the fight for freedom by the Hungarian people against the Russian intervention, and it is possible that I shall only be able to stay at my post for one or two hours. The whole world will see how the Russian armed forces, contrary to all treaties and conventions, are crushing the resistance of the Hungarian people.

The contest is becoming—has become—one, not alone of freedom for the black, but freedom for the white.