Liberty and justice Quote by Eric Hobsbawm

“If their way was a blind alley, let us not deny them the longing for liberty and justice which moved them.”

— Eric Hobsbawm

“They have a certain gaiety to them, a power of invention, they don't care what people think. They have escaped, though what it is…

— Margaret Atwood

“There were those few, and there will be more, who really liked people, loved people—all people. They were the human torches setting aflame the…

— Saul Alinsky

“My feelings-let's hold on to this idea of them as shuffling Victorians, let's make them servants, an entire uniformed household staff- were fresh, raw,…

— Joan Wickersham

“Together, they at once dodged those parts of themselves and magnified them, making for enigmatic harmony and anarchy.”

— Deirdre Riordan Hall

“The dagger-men were both revolutionaries and bandits, killing the rich and robbing the poor.”

— Randy Ingermanson

“Moments like these absolve the needs dividing men. Whatever caught and brought and kept them here Under Troy's Wall for ten burnt years Is…

— Christopher Logue

“The truth was, the nation as a body was in the world for one object, and one only: to grovel before king and Church…

— Mark Twain

“You look beautiful and tragic, just the way a heroine should on the eve of battle. Like Joan of Arc in her silver armor.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

“Since they were unable to liberate themselves from the old words and the fear, they prowled the streets and cast their angry shadows.”

— Aharon Appelfeld

“A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robe in my face,…

— Maximilien Robespierre

“. . . these errand-boys and furtive and fugitive girls who, ignoring their doom, look in at shop windows? But I am aware of our ephemeral passage.”

— Virginia Woolf