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  • It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.51, New Directions Publishing
  • For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

    Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan
  • Even if I have to face death a thousand times for the sake of my Motherland, I shall not be sorry. Oh, Lord! Grant me a hundred births inIndia. But grant me this, too, that each time I may give up my life in the service of the Motherland.

  • I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.

  • We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.

    Lal Bahadur Shastri (1965). “Speeches, June 1964-May 1965”
  • Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

  • Freedom can be gained only at the point of an IRA rifle, and I apologize to no one for saying that we support the freedom fighters of the IRA.

    Support   Rifles   Ira  
  • Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

    Sleep   Destiny   August  
  • To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger.

    Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.162, Pan Macmillan
  • Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

    Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”
  • There is no dream, and if there is, there is only one to see you my children struggling for the same and for which I am expected to be finished.

  • So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

    Inspiring   Law   Long  
    Speech delivered to the Bombay Presidency Mahar Conference, www.columbia.edu. May 31, 1936.
  • In 1985, a group of mujahedeen came to Washington and was greeted by President Reagan, who called them "freedom fighters." These people, by the way, don't represent Islam in any formal sense. They're not imams or sheiks. They are self-appointed warriors for Islam.

    Warrior   Self   People  
    Source: www.progressive.org
  • I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.

    Father   Party   Years  
  • As a young woman, Ama Ata Aidoo the freedom fighter vowed never to write love stories. Let’s delight in the fact that over the years she has changed her mind about the value of writing about love, as her rich edited collection of highly original and diverse ‘African Love Stories’ demonstrates. She has traveled her path and had the courage to grow and change while retaining her deep commitment to Pan- Africanism. Love flourishes, after all is said and done.

  • I'm not interested in embarrassing the United States. We as a nation need to foster a broader understanding of national security, and when in the name of national security the US government both overtly and covertly aligns itself with the apartheid state and against heroic freedom fighters for racial justice ... Not only in 1962 but also keeping in mind that Mandela was on the US terror watch list until 2008, that kind of myopic understanding of national security has devastating consequences.

    Source: news.vice.com
  • Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.

    "Mother to the MMOB / Bolinas woman mobilizes moms to change country" by Tricia Cambron, www.sfgate.com. July 9, 2004.
  • I might add how in the world can you say, or can anyone say, that it will dignify the American Negro to beg in or wade [?] in or plead in when the people in Hungary didn't beg in? They were freedom fighters. And they fought for their freedom.

    People   Add   Wade  
  • I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.

    Fighter   Shame   Sand  
    Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, Anchor
  • I'm more of a freedom fighter than I am a Christian. I serve Jesus Christ. How I believe is that God's promises are not for here on Earth. They're for when we leave this Earth and we go to Heaven - that's when there's no more tears, no more sorrows.

    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

    Fall   Hands   Branches  
    Yasser Arafat's UN General Assembly speech, November 13, 1974.
  • You don't have to carry a gun to be a freedom fighter.

    Live Broadcast at Empowerment Radio with Tunde Obazee, October 23, 2006.
  • Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

    Funny   Peace   Freedom  
    "George Carlin: Doin' It Again", www.imdb.com. 1990.
  • Let's ask the Lord to give us a Jubilee strategy for this nation! Below, I have an article related to the Freedom Fighters and Triumphant Reserve that the Spirit of the Lord is rising up in days ahead. That is why we need Apostolic Hubs (Freedom Outposts).

    "Chuck Pierce: Freedom Fighters! Calling Forth a Prophetic Triumphant Reserve". www.elijahlist.com. July 12, 2012.
  • No matter how discouraged I get from the people who are being appointed in this next administration, how discouraged I feel to know that I will no longer have folks who look like me and share in my vision, I am encouraged by what I think that this particular time period and this particular election season will inspire in the next generation and the current generation of freedom fighters.

    Source: www.elle.com
  • If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland.

    Freedom   Blood   Water  
    "Character: Chandra Shekhar Azad". "Rang De Basanti", www.imdb.com. 2006.
  • It was thought that to rally Islam against godless communism would be doing the Soviet Union a very bad turn indeed, and that, in fact, transpired. In 1985, a group of mujahedeen came to Washington and was greeted by President [Ronald] Reagan, who called them "freedom fighters."

    President   Islam   Facts  
    Source: www.progressive.org
  • Vast quantities of U.S. bombers, tanks and guns have been sent against Ho Chi Minh and his freedom-fighters; and now we are told that soon it will be 'advisable' to send America GI's into Indo-China in order that the tin, rubber and tungsten of Southeast Asia be kept by the "free world"-meaning white Imperialism.

    Gun   Order   White  
    "Paul Robeson Speaks: The Negro and The Soviet Union". Book by Phillip S. Foner, p. 378, 1978.
  • We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.” It was “illegal” to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If todayI lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's antireligious laws.

    "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963
  • Trump has the opportunity to be a Founding Father. You know why? Because Jeff Sessions comes from Alabama, where the constitution is staunchly racist. So it's not whether Sessions is racist but where he comes from. Trump can bring him in the mix and they open up a chance to do what a freedom fighter doesn't If Trump can help change what Sessions has been taught all his life, he can do more for the uplifting of the downtrodden than anyone else.

    Source: www.politico.com
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