“Those who profess to favour freedom and yet depreciate agitation are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.”
-Frederick Douglass

“Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.”-Erich Fromm

“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance”-Woodrow Wilson

“We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love, the freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!”- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”-Samuel Adams