Frantz Fanon: At the decisive moment, the colonialist bourgeoisie, which up till then has remained inactive, comes into the field. It introduces that new idea which is in proper parlance a creation of the colonial situation: non-violence. In its simplest form this non-violence signifies to the intellectual and economic elite of the colonized country that the bourgeoisie has the same interests as they and that it is therefore urgent and indispensable to come to terms for the public good. Non-violence is an attempt to settle the colonial problem around a green baize table, before any regrettable act has been performed or irreparable gesture made, before any blood has been shed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4709
Lou Harry: Hollywood helps define just about everything in America. And journalism is no exception. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4710
Malcolm X: If the "religious" claim of the Zionists is true that they were to be led to the promised land by their messiah, and Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine is the fulfillment of that prophesy: where is their messiah whom their prophets said would get the credit for leading them there? It was Ralph Bunche who "negotiated" the Zionists into possession of Occupied Palestine! Is Ralph Bunche the messiah of Zionism? If Ralph Bunche is not their messiah, and their messsiah has not yet come, then what are they doing in Palestine ahead of their messiah? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4711
Frantz Fanon: The more the people understand, the more watchful they become, and the more they come to realize that finally everything depends on them and their salvation lies in their own cohesion. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4712
Kwame Ture: I've never voted in my life in the Democratic Party, and I'll never vote in the Democratic Party. It's racist and it's capitalist to the core. This is understood. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4713
Kwame Ture: You vote once in four years, and that’s your political responsibility? That’s the height of bourgeois propaganda, making the people politically irresponsible. Thinking their responsibility is limited to a one day vote. Politics is every day. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4714
Dalton Trumbo: Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4715
Dalton Trumbo: Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4716
William Z. Foster: The wide development of Fascism in various forms in the several capitalist countries is not a sign of capitalism growing stronger, but weaker. Fascism arises with the deepening of the capitalist crisis. It is the desperate means by which capitalism in its extremity of crisis vainly tries to save itself. It is significant that Fascism is most developed in exactly those countries that are the weakest links in the capitalist world chain. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4717
Karl Marx: In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4718
Mao Zedong: Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4719
Joe Biden: I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4720
Enver Hoxha: Marxism-Leninism has opened our eyes with the conclusions drawn from the analyses which it has made of the development of society through the class struggle. It teaches us that the class struggle is the motor of society, which keeps you alive, gives you strength, gives you victory. If you extinguish this struggle the bourgeoisie and capitalism will strangle and enslave you, and our people have never liked slavery. On the contrary, our people have always fought against the grip of slavery. Therefore, our Party has never ceased the class struggle, either internally or in the international arena, and never will cease it, even for a moment. For 40 years on end our people and Party have resolutely opposed and combatted everything old and conservative, opportunist and liberal, all those who have tried openly or secretly to divert us from our correct course, we have fought any force or ideology which has aimed to infect the consciousness of our people, to hinder our march towards better days, towards the present and the more secure future. We have always kept the class struggle ablaze, and it is precisely this great and revolutionizing motive force which has made our small Homeland unshakeable “either by the cannon, or the bomb,” as the folk song says, that is, either by revisionism, capitalism or reaction. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4721
Alexei Leonov: The universe is infinite in time and space, the very black sky, black as coal, bright, un-flickering stars, and so many of them. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4722
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Jean-Paul Sartre: The cowards are those who take shelter under the rules. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4723
GautierDay hat dies geteilt.
Stalin: It was formerly the 'accepted' idea that the world has been divided from time immemorial into inferior and superior races, into blacks and whites, of whom the former are unfit for civilization and are doomed to be objects of exploitation, while the latter are the only bearers of civilization, whose mission it is to exploit the former. That legend must now be regarded as shattered and discarded. One of the most important results of the October Revolution is that it dealt that legend a mortal blow, by demonstrating in practice that the liberated non-European peoples, drawn into the channel of Soviet development, are not one whit less capable of promoting a really progressive culture and a really progressive civilization than are the European peoples... The era of tranquil exploitation and oppression of the colonies and dependent countries has passed away. The era of liberating revolutions in the colonies, the era of the awakening of the proletariat in those countries, the era of its hegemony in the revolution, has begun. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4724
Nikola Tesla: Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4725
GautierDay hat dies geteilt.
Ho Chi Minh: In the old society, the feudal landlords, capitalists and imperialists mercilessly oppressed and exploited the other social strata, especially the workers and peasants. They plundered the common property produced by society, turned into their own private property and lived in clover. But they kept ranting about "virtue", "freedom", "democracy"... Refusing to endure this oppression and exploitation for ever, the workers, peasants and other toiling people have risen up and made the revolution in order to liberate themselves and transform the wicked old society into a fine new one, in which all labouring people would like happily, and from which the exploitation of man by man would be banned. To succeed, the revolution must be led by the working class - the most advanced, conscious, resolute, disciplined and best organized class - with the proletarian party as its staff. This has been incontestably borne out by the revolution in the Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4726
Assata Shakur: Everything is a lie in amerika, and the thing that keeps it going is that so many people believe the lie. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4727
Simon Linguet: It is the impossibility of living by any other means that compels our farm labourers to till the soil whose fruits they will not eat, and our masons to construct buildings in which they will not live. It is want that drags them to those markets where they await masters who will do them the kindness of buying them. It is want that compels them to go down on their knees to the rich man in order to get from him permission to enrich him…He is free, you say. Ah!…What does it mean? They have no master—they have one, and the most terrible, the most imperious of masters, that is, need. It is this that reduces them to the most cruel dependence…They become the valets of anyone who has money…They live only by hiring out their arms. They must therefore find someone to hire them, or die of hunger. Is that to be free? The ‘independence’ (of the wage-worker) is one of the most baneful scourges that the refinement of modern times has produced. It augments the wealth of the rich and the poverty of the poor. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4728
Stalin: Imperialism is the omnipotence of monopolistic trusts and syndicates, banks and financial oligarchies in industrial countries. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4729
Lenin: Social chauvinists are our class opponents, the bourgeois among the working-class movement. They represent a stratum, groups, and layers of workers who have been objectively bribed by the bourgeoisie (the best wages, places of honor, etc.) and who help their bourgeoisie to plunder and strangle small and weak peoples, to fight over the division of capitalist spoils. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4730
Stalin: The inevitable result of the imperialist policy of masked intervention will be that it will draw the “small” nations into the sphere of the revolution and extend the base of socialism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4731
Lenin: Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capital is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4732
John Bright: Well, the Rock of Gibraltar was taken and retained when we were not at war with Spain, and it was retained contrary to every law of morality and honour. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4733
James Riddle Hoffa: Too often, the younger generation of workers forgets the bitter hardships and struggles of those who went before them to build the conditions they enjoy today. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4734
Mother Jones: I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4735
William S. Burroughs: What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4736
William Z. Foster: Fascist apologists brazenly lie when they say that Hitler (or Mussolini) has abolished mass unemployment and in- dustrial crises. The fascists have only temporarily obscured these in- curable diseases of capitalism by their present wholesale production of munitions and the gearing of the nation’s whole economy to the waging of war. Only by carrying on the horrible trade of organized mass slaughter can the Nazis keep their industries going, even for the time being. This is true also of American and British capitalism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4737
William Z. Foster: Fascism teaches young people to die and drives them into mass slaughter; socialism shows them the way to live and provides them the means for so doing. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4738
William Z. Foster: As the world capitalist system, caught in the meshes of its own incurable crisis, strangles and smothers, so also its culture withers and dies. Under fascist regimes, which arose where the capitalist crisis reached a very acute stage, the decay of capitalist culture is the most pronounced. In fascist Germany education is decadent, sci- ence is in decline, and the arts are stultified. The whole educational apparatus – universities, colleges, schools, etc. – has been drasti- cally curtailed. The only science the fascists are interested in is that which advances their war technique, and the same tendency is growing in all other capitalist states. The Nazis have a supreme con- tempt for the popular mind. All they seek is the most effective means to deceive the people into obeying their autocratic com- mands. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4739
William Z. Foster: Capitalism, especially in its fascist aspects, corrodes and destroys human per- sonality; socialism develops personality to its utmost. In the Soviet Union there is literally a new type of man in the making, not only in the economic and political sense, but also with regard to his physi- cal, mental and individual characteristics. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4740
William Z. Foster: For the capitalists the way out of the crisis is by forcing great masses of unemployed into semistarvation, driving down the wage levels of the employed, waging desperate imperialist war, and instituting a regime of Fascist terrorism. This is the way the whole capitalist world development goes. For the workers, the capitalist way out means deeper enslavement and poverty than ever. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4741
William Z. Foster: The capitalists will never voluntarily give up control of society and abdicate their system of exploiting the masses. Regardless of the devastating effects of their decaying capitalism; let there be famine, war, pestilence, terrorism, they will hang on to their wealth and power until it is snatched from their hands by the revolutionary proletariat. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4742
William Z. Foster: The capitalists will not give up of their own accord; nor can they be talked, bought or voted out of power. To believe otherwise would be a deadly fatalism, disarming and paralyzing the workers in their struggle. No ruling class ever surrendered to a rising subject class without a last ditch open fight. To put an end to the capitalist system will require a consciously revolutionary act by the great toiling masses, led by the Communist party; that is, the conquest of the State power, the destruction of the State machine created by the ruling class, and the organization of the proletarian dictatorship. The lessons of history allow of no other conclusion. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4743
William Z. Foster: The Social Fascists make a great parade of their theory of the “gradual” evolution of capitalism into Socialism through a process of peaceful parliamentarism. Thus Mr. Hilquit, the millionaire leader of the Socialist party says: “In the more democratic countries, especially those in which the Socialist and labor movements constitute important political and social factors, the necessary transitional reforms, or at least a large part of them, may be gradually conquered through the direct control by the proletariat of important organs of the State, such as municipalities or legislatures, or through the indirect influence of the growing labor movement.”1 Mr. Hillquit, like Social Fascists generally, goes on to say that the present imperialist government is actually the “Socialist transitional State, although it would be impossible for us to say just when we entered it”. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4744