All we have is now, this moment. If you live in the future, you’ll miss things, right here, right now, and you’ll regret it later.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

How often you impress people when you have nothing and how often you oppress them when you have everything is what defines your real character!

In every country where there is a vicious oppression, a peaceful and a continuous civil disobedience is the magical door opening to the freedom!

Little Maiden Encounters FearDeepest regions walked she therelittle maiden sweet and fairventured far from the pathnever a whispernever a laugh...

I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former.

I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.

Resherphire: True freedom is not that which is granted by an oppressor. It is a self-evident right, not something that originates from an external force.

When free men stand, they will always carry on and lift Liberty yet unfree men shall always struggle to fight for freedom and liberty until they attain it.

... the reigns of the kings and queens who are portrayed as kneeling with clasped hands in the windows of churches, were stained by oppression and bloodshed.

Christmas has become a public affirmation of the power and benignity of the state, to which we all make obeisance in the sybolism of the breath test ceremony.