Babak Khorramdin Quotes

9th-century Iranian revolutionary leader

Babak Khorramdin (795/8–838) was an Iranian revolutionary leader of the Khurramites—a local freedom movement in Azerbaijan fighting the Abbasid Caliphate.

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Native Name: بابک خرمدین

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[...] It is better to live for just a single day as a ruler than to live for forty years as an abject slave.

Perhaps I shall survive, perhaps not. I have been known as the commander. Wherever I am present or am mentioned, I am the king.