Freedom Movement Quotes

“Simply put: because nonviolence worked so well as a tactic for effecting change and was demonstrably improving their lives, some black people chose to use weapons to defend the nonviolent Freedom Movement.”
― Charles E. Cobb, This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

“And the police got nervous and they began to kick us in our backs and stomachs, and the crowd shouted 'Mahatma Gandhi ki jai!' and someone took a kerosene tin and began to beat it, and someone took a cattle-bell and began to ring it, and they cried, 'With them, brothers, with them!' and they leaped and they ducked and they came down to lie beside us, and we shouted 'Mahatma Gandhi ki jai! Mahatma Gandhi ki jai!”
― Raja Rao, Kanthapura

“The power of the people is the greatest power in the world.. The occupiers and facilitators are shocked. This fear is their defeat and the victory of the people. Salutations to the conscious struggle of the people.”
― Shaheed-e-Azemat -Sheikh Abdul Aziz