Protest, Resistance and Revolution

Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not

Year after year they voted cent per cent

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field.

Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels from principle.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.

Mock on, mock on Voltaire, Rousseau:

Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion.

We will not go to Canossa.

For every time She shouted ‘Fire!’

If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.

If you can’t annoy somebody with what you write, I think there’s little point in writing.

I ain’t got no quarrel with the Viet Cong. refusing to be drafted to fight in Vietnam

The jaws of power are always opened to devour.

Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Non-co-operation with evil is as much a duty as is co-operation with good.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before anyone, even at the cost of your life.

If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to this disaffection so long as one does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.