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Virgil: The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labor lies. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5235




Theodore White: The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping poli tical power is unrestrained by any law. It determines what people will talk and think about— an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties, and mandarins. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5238




Rosa Luxemburg: Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5240



Emir Sader: If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most other monkeys starved to death, scientists would study that monkey to find out what the hell was going on with it. When humans do that, we put them on the cover of Forbes. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5242


Barbara Ehrenreich: Please, no more talk of companies “giving” people jobs. In reality, the gift relationship goes in the opposite direction. Workers give their blood, sweat and tears, sometimes their lives, and in return companies pay them the minimum they can get away with. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5243



Lenin: The idea of building communist society exclusively with the hands of the Communists is childish, absolutely childish. We communists are but a drop in the ocean, a drop in the ocean of the people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5244




Malala Yousafzai: I am convinced Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5245


Lenin: We started this. Exactly when, at what time, the proletarians of which nation will carry this matter to the end is an insignificant question. The essential is that the ice is broken, that the path is open, the road is shown. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5246


Lenin: The proletariat, rallying in the struggle, developing by the struggle its own consciousness, organization and experience, comes ever wider and wider to firm conviction of the need for a complete economic reorganization of capitalist society. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5247


Lenin: Having read with great tremendous interest and unflagging attention John Reed’s book, “The Ten Days That Shook the World,” I sincerely recommend this book to workers of all countries. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5248


Lenin: In the capitalist world, Marx's doctrine arouses the greatest enmity and hatred of all bourgeois science, which considers marxism something like a "pernicious sect." One cannot expect a different attitude, because there cannot be a science that is “impartial" in a society built on class struggle. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5249



Lenin: In one way or another, all bourgeois science defends wage slavery, and marxism declared a merciless war on that slavery. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5250




Lenin: To expect impartial science in a society founded on slavery is as stupidly naive as expecting impartiality from the owners of the means of production that the wages of workers should be increased to the detriment of the profits of capitalists. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5251


Enver Hoxha: The Eurocommunists do not want to see the existence of a major national problem, the question of American domination in Western Europe and the need for liberation from it. From the end of the Second World War to this day, American imperialism has bound this part of Europe with all kinds of political, economic, military, cultural and other chains. Without breaking these chains you cannot have socialism, or even that bourgeois democracy which the Eurocommunists praise to the skies. American capital has penetrated so deeply into Europe, is so closely combined with local capital that where one begins and the other finishes can no longer be distinguished. The European armies have been so completely integrated into NATO, in which the Americans dominate, that in practice they no longer exist as independent national forces. An ever greater integration is developing in the financial and monetary field, in technology, culture. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5252




Frederick Douglass: Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5254







Mumia Abu-Jamal: Palestine, its people, its history, its culture, its art, its poetry, its very land, is dismissed as a mere trifle by the U.S. Empire, not dissimilar to the response of the old British Empire, which dispatched the lands, hopes and dreams of the Palestinians, with cold, imperial aplomb. For empire is ever an exercise of global violence, for domination is but utter violation: the very root of violence. It violates the human soul, which yearns for freedom. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5256



Mumia Abu-Jamal: Palestine was relegated to the misery of a warren of Middle Eastern ghettoes for one reason — and one reason only: To allow the erection of a colonial outpost from which Britain (and later the U.S.) could exercise power in a region that held the greatest prize in world history: petroleum. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5257