Lenin: Here we come to the most urgent question of our movement, to its sore point-organisation. The improvement of revolutionary organisation and discipline, the perfection of our underground technique are an absolute necessity. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4143
Peter Gelderloos: Perhaps the largest of the limited, if not hollow, victories of the civil rights movement came when black people demonstrated they would not remain peaceful forever. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4144
Peter Gelderloos: Prevent violence on the part of black nationalist groups. This is of primary importance, and is, of course, a goal of our investigative activity; it should also be a goal of the Counterintelligence Program (in the original government lingo, that phrase refers to a specific operation, of which there were thousands, and not the overarching program). Through counterintelligence it should be possible to pinpoint potential troublemakers and neutralize them before they exercise their potential for violence. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4145
Peter Gelderloos: As part of a disturbingly universal pattern, pacifists white out those other forms of resistance and help propagate the false history that Gandhi and his disciples were the lone masthead and rudder of Indian resistance. Ignored are important militant leaders such as Chandrasekhar Azad, who fought in armed struggle against the British colonizers, and revolutionaries such as Bhagat Singh, who won mass support for bombings and assassinations as part of a struggle to accomplish the ‘overthrow of both foreign and Indian capitalism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4146
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Peter Gelderloos: The liberation movement in India failed. The British were not forced to quit India. Rather, they chose to transfer the territory from direct colonial rule to neocolonial rule,” What kind of victory allows the losing side to dictate the time and manner of the victors’ ascendancy? The British authored the new constitution and turned power over to handpicked successors. They fanned the flames of religious and ethnic separatism so that India would be divided against itself, prevented from gaining peace and prosperity, and dependent on military aid and other support from Euro/American states.” India is still exploited by Euro/American corporations (though several new Indian corporations, mostly subsidiaries, have joined in the pillaging), and still provides resources and markets for the imperialist states. In many ways the poverty of its people has deepened and the exploitation has become more efficient. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4147
Peter Gelderloos: If the Palestinians hadn’t made the Israeli occupation and every successive aggression so costly, all the Palestinian land would be seized, except for a few reservations to hold the necessary number of surplus laborers to supplement the Israeli economy, and the Palestinians would be a distant memory in a long line of extinct peoples. Palestinian resistance, including suicide bombings, has helped ensure Palestinian survival against a far more powerful enemy. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4148
Peter Gelderloos: Nonviolence declares that the American Indians could have fought off Columbus, George Washington, and all the other genocidal butchers with sit-ins; that Crazy Horse, by using violent resistance, became part of the cycle of violence, and was “as bad as” Custer. Nonviolence declares that Africans could have stopped the slave trade with hunger strikes and petitions, and that those who mutinied were as bad as their captors; that mutiny, a form of violence, led to more violence, and, thus, resistance led to more enslavement. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4149
Peter Gelderloos: Pretending that all violence is the same is very convenient for supposedly anti-violence privileged people who benefit from the violence of the state and have much to lose from the violence of revolution. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4150
Benjamin Netanyahu: We own the Senate, the Congress, and we have a record-strong Jewish lobby on our side. We have a strong influence over the general support. America won’t force us into anything. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4151
Peter Gelderloos: Put simply, if a movement is not a threat, it cannot change a system based on centralized coercion and violence. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4152
Peter Gelderloos: The state is not a passive thing. If it wants to repress a movement or organization, it does not wait for an excuse, it manufactures one (…) About such campaigns, the FBI says, “It is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge….(D)isruption (through the media) can be accomplished without facts to back it up. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4153
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Peter Gelderloos: Permitting nonviolent protest improves the image of the state. Whether they mean to or not, nonviolent dissidents play the role of a loyal opposition in a performance that dramatizes dissent and creates the illusion that democratic government is not elitist or authoritarian. Pacifists paint the state as benign by giving authority the chance to tolerate a criticism that does not actually threaten its continued operation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4154
Peter Gelderloos: In its long history, this strategy type has not succeeded in causing the class of owners, managers, and enforcers to defect and be disobedient, because their interests are fundamentally opposed to the interests of those who participate in the disobedience. What disobedience strategies have succeeded in doing, time and time again, is forcing out particular government regimes, though these are always replaced by other regimes constituted from among the elite. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4155
Karl Marx: Is that to say we are against Free Trade? No, we are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon the territory of the whole earth; and because from the uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the emancipation of the proletariat. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4156
Thomas Jefferson: The bank mania... is raising up a moneyed aristocracy in our country which has already set the government at defiance, and although forced at length to yield a little on this first essay of their strength, their principles are unyielded and unyielding. These have taken deep root in the hearts of that class from which our legislators are drawn, and the sop to Cerberus from fable has become history. Their principles lay hold of the good, their pelf of the bad, and thus those whom the Constitution had placed as guards to its portals, are sophisticated or suborned from their duties. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4157
Thomas Jefferson: ...I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4158
Goethe: Everywhere revolutions are painful yet fruitful gestations of a people: they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4159
Che Guevara: When hopes and dreams are loose in the street, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4160
David Ben Gurion: If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: We have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4161
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Abraham Lincoln: The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. Unless he understands this, he does not grasp the essential meaning of his life. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4162
John F. Kennedy: All oppressed people are authorized, wherever they can, to rise and break their fetters. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4163
Thomas Jefferson: If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4164
Peter Gelderloos: The elite cannot be persuaded by appeals to their conscience. Individuals who do change their minds and find a better morality will be fired, impeached, replaced, recalled, assassinated. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4165
Peter Gelderloos: Besides the fact that the typical pacifist is quite clearly white and middle class (sic), pacifism as an ideology comes from a privileged context. It ignores that violence is already here; that violence is an unavoidable, structurally integral part of the current social hierarchy; and that it is people of color who are most affected by that violence. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4166
Aristotle: Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4167
Rosa Luxemburg: Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4168
George Orwell: As an ex-Indian civil servant, it always makes me shout with laughter to hear, for instance, Gandhi named as an example of the success of non-violence. As long as twenty years ago it was cynically admitted in Anglo-Indian circles that Gandhi was very useful to the British government. So he will be to the Japanese if they get there. Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4169
Mahatma Gandhi: An unjust law is itself a species of violence. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4171
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Edmund Burke: All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4172
Mahatma Gandhi: What is obtained through violence can only be kept through violence. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4173
Bertrand Russell: Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4174
Karl Marx: While the democratic petty bourgeois want to bring the revolution to an end as quickly as possible, achieving at most the aims already mentioned, it is our interest and our task to make the revolution permanent until all the more or less propertied classes have been driven from their ruling positions, until the proletariat has conquered state power and until the association of the proletarians has progressed sufficiently far - not only in one country but in all the leading countries of the world - that competition between the proletarians of these countries ceases and at least the decisive forces of production are concentrated in the hands of the workers. Our concern cannot simply be to modify private property, but to abolish it, not to hush up class antagonisms but to abolish classes, not to improve the existing society but to found a new one. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4175
Charles Eliot Norton: The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4176
First Amendment: Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. In other words, literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4177
Henry Steele Commager: Our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past while we silence the rebels of the present. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4178