Eduardo Galeano: They came. They had the Bible and we had the land. And they said to us, "Close your eyes and pray". And when we opened our eyes, they had the earth and we had the Bible. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9543

Rolf Hochhuth: When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9544

Stalin: Under capitalism there are no real "liberties" for the exploited, nor can there be, if for no reason than that the premises, printing plants, paper supplies, etc, indispensable for the enjoyment of "liberties" are the privilege of the exploiters. Under capitalism the exploited masses do not, nor can they ever, really participate in governing the country, if for no other reason than that, even under the most democratic regime, under conditions of capitalism, governments are not set up by the people but by the Rothschilds and Stinneses, the Rockefellers and Morgans. Democracy under capitalism is capitalist democracy, the democracy of the exploiting minority, based on the restriction of the rights of exploited majority and directed against this majority. Only under the proletarian dictatorship are real liberties for the exploited and real participation of the proletarians and peasants in governing the country possible. Under the dictatorship of the proletariat, democracy is proletarian democracy, the democracy of the exploited majority, based on the restriction of the rights of the exploiting minority and directed against this minority. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9545

Lenin: Soviet power has been trying to make it possible for the working people to organise their lives without private property in land, without privately-owned factories, without that private property that everywhere, throughout the world, even where there is complete political liberty, even in the most democratic republics, keeps the working people in a state of what is actually poverty and wage-slavery, and women in a state of double slavery. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9546

Lenin: The blockade by the imperialist beasts is in full swing; the violence of the biggest world powers is turned against us in the hope of restoring the rule of the exploiters. And all this bestial fury of the Russian and world capitalists is cloaked, needless to say, in phrases about the lofty significance of "democracy"! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9547

Margaret Thatcher: There's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9548

Camille Desmoulins: The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9549

George L. Jackson: The U.S. has established itself as the mortal enemy of all peoples' government, all scientific-socialist mobilization of consciousness everywhere on the globe, all anti-imperialist activity on earth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9550