Gramsci: The crisis of fascism, about whose origins and causes so much is now being written, can easily be explained by a serious examination of the evolution of the fascist movement itself. The Fasci di combattimento were born in the aftermath of the war. They were imbued with the petit-bourgeois character of the various veterans associations which arose at that time. Due to their trenchant opposition to the socialist movement they obtained the support of the capitalists and the authorities. This aspect of the Fasci was inherited in part from the conflict between the Socialist Party and the ‘interventionist’ associations during the war years. They emerged during the same period when the rural landowners were feeling the need to create a White Guard to tackle the growing workers’ organisations. The gangs that were already organised and armed by the big landowners soon adopted the label Fasci for themselves too. With their subsequent development, these gangs would acquire their own distinct character – as a White Guard of capitalism against the class organs of the proletariat. Fascism still conserves this trait of its origins. But until very recently, the fervour of the armed offensive kept a lid on the tensions between the urban cadre – who are predominantly petit-bourgeois, orientated on parliament, and ‘collaborationist’ – and the rural cadre, which consist of the big and medium landowners and their tenant farmers. These rural groups are engaged in a fight against the poor peasants and their organisations. They are acutely anti-union and reactionary. And they have far more faith in direct armed action than in the authority of the state and the efficacy of parliament. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5774
George Carlin: Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters fight? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5775
George Carlin: There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5776
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George Carlin: They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5777
Winston Churchill: Let's not let Argentina be a power, because it will drag all of Latin America behind it... The strategy is to weaken and corrupt Argentina from within. Destroy their industries, their armed forces, foment internal divisions by supporting sides on the right and left, attack their culture in all media, impose political leaders who respond to our Empire. This will be achieved thanks to the apathy of its people and a controllable democracy, where its representatives will raise their hands en masse in servile submission. Argentina must be humiliated. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5778
Meridel Le Sueur: The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5779
Sophie Scholl: How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause. Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5780
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Meridel Le Sueur: The source of American culture lies in the historic movement of our people, and the artist must become voice, messenger, awakener, sparking the inflammable silence, reflecting back the courage and the beauty. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5781
Sophie Scholl: Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5782
Sophie Scholl: An end in terror is preferable to terror without end. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5783
Sophie Scholl: The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5784
Noam Chomsky: As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5785
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Immanuel Kant: Have courage to make use of your own understanding! is thus the motto of enlightenment. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5786
Kathleen Cleaver: Non-violence is non-functional. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5787
Malcolm X: So our next move is to take the entire civil rights struggle, problem, into the United Nations and let the world see that Uncle Sam is guilty of violating the human rights of 22 million Afro-Americans right down to the year of 1964 and still has the audacity or the nerve to like a bloody-jawed wolf. And still got the nerve to point his finger at other countries. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5788
Che Guevara: Violence is not the monopoly of the exploiters and as such the exploited can use it too and, moreover, ought to use it when the moment arrives. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5789
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W. E. B. Du Bois: We have no right to sit silently by while the inevitable seeds are sown for a harvest of disaster to our children, black and white. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5790
Julian Assange: The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5791
Julian Assange: Only revealed injustice can be answered; for man to do anything intelligent he has to know what's actually going on. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5792
W. E. B. Du Bois: Ignorance is a cure for nothing. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5793
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Daniel Berrigan: You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5794
Billy Wilder: Money makes even bastards legitimate. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5795
Billy Wilder: If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5796
George Orwell: Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, ‘he that is not with me is against me’. The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle, while living on food which British sailors have to risk their lives to bring you, is a bourgeois illusion bred of money and security. Mr Savage remarks that ‘according to this type of reasoning, a German or Japanese pacifist would be “objectively pro-British”.’ But of course he would be! That is why pacifist activities are not permitted in those countries (in both of them the penalty is, or can be, beheading) while both the Germans and the Japanese do all they can to encourage the spread of pacifism in British and American territories. The Germans even run a spurious ‘freedom’ station which serves out pacifist propaganda indistinguishable from that of the P.P.U. They would stimulate pacifism in Russia as well if they could, but in that case they have tougher babies to deal with. In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5797
Roger Baldwin: Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5798
Karl Marx: Given a fall in the value of money, the price of labour, unless it rises in the same proportion, falls, the rate of surplus value rises, and therefore, all other things remaining the same, the rate of profit rises too. This rise of the latter — as long as the descendant oscillation in the value of money continues — is due solely to the fall in wages, and this fall is due to the fact that the change in wages is slow. to match the change in the value of money. (As was the case at the end of the 16th and in the 17th century.) Conversely, if, with the value of money rising, wages do not fall in the same proportion, the rate of surplus value falls, and therefore, caeteris paribus, the rate of profit. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5799
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Georgi Plekhanov: An Anarchist is a man who – when he is not a police agent – is fated always and everywhere to attain the opposite of that which he attempts to achieve. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5800
Fidel Castro: When the bribes have done their work; when all forces have spoken, here will remain the Cuban people. We will be here with courage and the right and the battle against us will not be easy, for bribes and intimidation and blackmail will mean nothing. It will be a matter then of facing the honor and dignity of the Cuban people who do not surrender or sell themselves. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5801
Julian Assange: I am in love with understanding the world, and sharing that understanding with other people. It’s a bit hard to describe how much I’m in love with that, and have been for many years. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5802
Benjamin Franklin: Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5803