Freedom Fighter Quotes

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Winning, Awards

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• Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Peace, Freedom

  "George Carlin: Doin' It Again", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.At a point, one can only fight fire with fire

  Nelson Mandela

  Struggle, Fighting, Fire

  "Nelson Mandela obituary" by David Beresford, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2013.

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• You can Jail a Revolutionary but you can't jail the Revolution. You can run a freedom fighter around the country, but you can't run freedom fighting around the country. You can murder a liberator, but you can't murder liberation.

  Huey Newton

  Running, Country, Fighting

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• 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.

  Chandra Shekhar Azad

  Freedom, Blood, Water

  "Character: Chandra Shekhar Azad". "Rang De Basanti", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.

  Molly Ivins

  Winning, Independence, Action

  "Mother to the MMOB / Bolinas woman mobilizes moms to change country" by Tricia Cambron, www.sfgate.com. July 9, 2004.

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• Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself.

  Chandra Shekhar Azad

  Motivational, Inspiring, Fighting

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• They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Fighter, Terrorist

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  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

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• You don't have to carry a gun to be a freedom fighter.

  Mac Maharaj

  Gun, Fighter

  Live Broadcast at Empowerment Radio with Tunde Obazee, October 23, 2006.

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• One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter

  Gerald Seymour

  Men, Another Day, Fighter

  Gerald Seymour (2007). “Harry's Game: A Thriller”, p.44, The Overlook Press

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• I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

  Yasser Arafat

  Fall, Islamic, Gun

  Yasser Arafat's UN General Assembly speech, November 13, 1974.

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• Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.

  Bhagat Singh

  Freedom, Real, Destiny

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• 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

  Guarantees That, Fighter, Swimmer

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.162, Pan Macmillan

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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

  Wise, Fake People, Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.51, New Directions Publishing

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• Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

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• The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends on the observer and the verdict of history.

  Pentti Linkola

  Differences, Perspective, Matter

  Pentti Linkola (2011). “Can Life Prevail?”, p.160, Arktos

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• Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.

  Vallabhbhai Patel

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Unity

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

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Inspiring, Law, Long

  Speech delivered to the Bombay Presidency Mahar Conference, www.columbia.edu. May 31, 1936.

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

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  Inspiring, Believe, People

  Lal Bahadur Shastri (1965). “Speeches, June 1964-May 1965”

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• There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Reality, That One Person, Definitions

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• Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

  Annie Besant

  Inspiring, Thinking, Silent

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• They are our brothers, these freedom fighters.... They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. We cannot turn away from them, for the struggle here is not right versus left; it is right versus wrong.

  Ronald Reagan

  Brother, Father, Struggle

  Ronald Reagan (1989). “Speaking my mind: selected speeches”, Simon & Schuster

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• Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

  Yasser Arafat

  Fall, Hands, Branches

  Yasser Arafat's UN General Assembly speech, November 13, 1974.

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• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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