Top 28 Quotes & Sayings by Susan Rosenberg

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Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Susan Lisa Rosenberg is an American activist, writer, advocate for social justice and prisoners' rights. From the late 1970s into the mid-1980s, Rosenberg was active in the far-left revolutionary May 19th Communist Organization ("M19CO") which, according to a contemporaneous FBI report, "openly advocate[d] the overthrow of the U.S. Government through armed struggle and the use of violence". M19CO provided support to an offshoot of the Black Liberation Army, including in armored truck robberies, and later engaged in bombings of government buildings.

American - Activist | Born: October 5, 1955

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I have been a revolutionary for much of my life.

Susan Rosenberg

I ran... I didn't trust the government. I was really afraid. I believe now that that was the fatal mistake of my life.

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I really believe our society has this propensity to punish.

Susan Rosenberg

We are innocent. We are not criminals or terrorists. We are revolutionary guerillas and have been captured in the course of building a resistance to this government.

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Seeing the B-52s dropped from planes, watching the burning of civilians with Agent Orange, reading about the incarceration of Vietnamese militants in cages only big enough for tigers made me furious.

Susan Rosenberg

We are revolutionary anti-imperialist resistance fighters.

Susan Rosenberg

First as a peace activist in the late '60s, then as a political activist in the '70s, and then in joining the armed clandestine resistance movement that was developing in the '80s, I am guilty of revolutionary and anti-imperialist resistance.

Susan Rosenberg

I continue to feel it was solidarity in the prison that made living in prison a different kind of community, and I began a life of service.

Susan Rosenberg

It was an extreme time, in a certain sense... I was totally and profoundly influenced by the revolutionary movements of the '60s and '70s.

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These chains are not going to stop me.

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I have a political view that is certainly progressive and radical in a certain sense.

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I had a second chance. I know how incredible that is.

Susan Rosenberg

The U.S. government does not recognize the existence of political prisoners in our country. The identity of political prisoners is concealed and, consequently, their right to justice is denied.

Susan Rosenberg

We are not terrorists. We're not criminals, we're not motivated by money, we're not motivated by greed. Nor are we simply nice kids gone wrong. We're deeply committed to a different kind of society and a different world. I think that is something very hard to understand for a lot of people.

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I took responsibility for the illegal actions, the potential for violence in my past actions, which I regret.

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I've done everything I know in my heart on every level to take responsibility for what I think I have to. I'm not going to take responsibility for something the government thinks that I should because they think I should.

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We're caught, but we're not defeated. Long live the armed struggle!

Susan Rosenberg

The use of violence by individuals... is not a position that I support or would ever want to be in again.

Susan Rosenberg

I supported the right of oppressed people to armed struggle. That didn't mean I did it.

Susan Rosenberg

The war against the Black Liberation movement by the FBI/U.S. government was most influential for me in seeing the necessity for armed self-defense.

Susan Rosenberg

The criminal activities I was involved in, I think that they were wrong and that they were dangerous.

Susan Rosenberg

I spent 11 years in isolation units, solitary confinement... in the hardest places for women.

Susan Rosenberg

I believed that one had to stop the machinery of war.

Susan Rosenberg

It is not a crime to build revolutionary resistance against the single greatest enemy of the people of the world: U.S. imperialism.

Susan Rosenberg

The high security is living death.

Susan Rosenberg

Being a lesbian is part of the very fabric of my being.

Susan Rosenberg

At the time it seemed like there was a loosening of culture, there was a counterculture, there was a radicalization. I think we totally misread what was really going on in the world, that somehow a small group of people could mobilize a larger group of people.

Susan Rosenberg

Political prisoners are important to support because we are in prison for explicitly social/political/progressive goals. Our lack of freedom does affect how free you are; If we can be violated, so can you.

Susan Rosenberg

Top 28 Quotes & Sayings by Susan Rosenberg

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