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Trịnh Thị Ngọ: Your rich leaders grow richer while you die in the swamp. Imperialists make you fight this war. Your government has betrayed you. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4990


Pancho Villa: My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4991



Friedrich Engels: The entire capital of our bankers, merchants, manufacturers and large landowners is nothing but the accumulated and unpaid labor of the working class. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4993



Buzz Aldrin: From space it has an almost benign quality. Intellectually one could realise there were wars underway, but emotionally it was impossible to understand such things. The thought reoccurred that wars are generally fought for territory or are disputes over borders; from space the arbitrary borders established on Earth cannot be seen. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4994


George Orwell: That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4995


Babatunde Olatunji: Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4996



Mark Twain: There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror — that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4998


Federico Garcia Lorca: In the fields where shadows grow tall, voices rise, answering the call. For the dreamers, the lost, the brave, we sing for freedom, our hearts enslaved. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4999


Federico Garcia Lorca: We don’t just live off bread. If I were hungry and helpless out on the streets, I wouldn’t ask for a loaf of bread. Instead, I’d ask for half a loaf and a book (…) All people should eat, but all should learn (…) because otherwise, they’ll be turned into machines. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5000


Federico Garcia Lorca: Culture because only through it can be solved the problems in which the people are debated today full of faith, but lacking light. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5001



Suetonius: Caesar overtook his advanced guard at the river Rubicon, which formed the frontier between Gaul and Italy. Well aware how critical a decision confronted him, he turned to his staff, remarking: "We may still draw back but, once across that little bridge, we shall have to fight it out. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5003


Suetonius: Caesar exclaimed: "Let us accept this as a sign from the Gods, and follow where they beckon, in vengeance on our double-dealing enemies. The die is cast. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5004



Suetonius: Twenty-three dagger thrusts went home as he stood there. Caesar did not utter a sound after Casca's blow had drawn a groan from him; though some say that when he saw Marcus Brutus about to deliver the second blow, he reproached him in Greek with: "You, too, my child? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5005


Suetonius: He answered some governors who had written to recommend an increase in the burden of provincial taxation, with: "A good shepherd shears his flock; he does not flay them". https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5006




Stalin: Such is the law of the exploiters — to beat the backward and the weak. It is the jungle law of capitalism. You are backward, you are weak — therefore you are wrong; hence you can be beaten and enslaved. You are mighty — therefore you are right; hence we must be wary of you. That is why we must no longer lag behind. In the past we had no fatherland, nor could we have had one. But now that we have overthrown capitalism and power is in our hands, in the hands of the people, we have a fatherland, and we will uphold its independence. Do you want our socialist fatherland to be beaten and to lose its independence? If you do not want this, you must put an end to its backwardness in the shortest possible time and develop a genuine Bolshevik tempo in building up its socialist economy. There is no other way. That is why Lenin said on the eve of the October Revolution: "Either perish, or overtake and outstrip the advanced capitalist countries." We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5009




Roy T. Bennett: The outer world is a reflection of the inner world. Other people’s perception of you is a reflection of them; your response to them is an awareness of you. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5011



Andrew Carnegie: I believe Socialism is the grandest theory ever presented, and I am sure it will someday rule the world. Then we will have attained the Millennium.... Then men will be content to work for the general welfare and share their riches with their neighbors. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5013


Lord Acton: I was struck in reading Karl Marx's new work by the extent to which he fetches his materials from England. It is a remarkable book, as the Koran of the new socialists. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5014


Lord Acton: At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has been sometimes disastrous, by giving to opponents just grounds of opposition, and by kindling dispute over the spoils in the hour of success. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5015




Jules Ferry: We must say openly that indeed the higher races have a right over the lower races... I repeat, that the superior races have a right because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize the inferior races... In the history of earlier centuries these duties, gentlemen, have often been misunderstood, and certainly when the Spanish soldiers and explorers introduced slavery into Central America, they did not fulfill their duty as men of a higher race... But in our time, I maintain that European nations acquit themselves with generosity, with grandeur, and with the sincerity of this superior civilizing duty. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5017


Karl Marx: We know only a single science, the science of history. One can look at history from two sides and divide it into the history of nature and the history of men. The two sides are, however, inseparable; the history of nature and the history of men are dependent on each other so long as men exist. The history of nature, called natural science, does not concern us here. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5018






Curtis LeMay: We killed off over a million civilian Koreans and drove several million more from their homes, with the inevitable additional tragedies bound to ensue. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5022


Robert Edward Lee: The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5023