Grover Furr: I found that the period of Soviet history with Stalin at the head has been completely distorted. Not just 'a mistake here and there', but basically a massive fraud, the biggest lie of the century. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3444
Joe Slovo: It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3445
Mao Zedong: These people tell the Communists, "Hand over your troops and we will grant you freedom"... yet whatever freedom we enjoyed vanished with the Kuomintang government's policies of "party purge" and massacre... Without a people's army, the people have nothing. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3447
Philip Agee: I don't think we have ever had real democracy in this country. Anyone who studies adoption of the constitution will understand quite clearly that; democracy - as we understand that on today; was the last thing the founding fathers had in mind when they wrote the constitution ....it was: to establish strong central authority responding the elitist interests in United States. That's private property. And those men who wrote the constitution were representatives of the elites. They were the lawyers, bankers, merchants, the land owners, slave owners and so forth. And they write the constitution for their own private interest$. That is how government has served ever since. And that is why we have so little democracy in United States. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3448
Philip Agee: What the Agency does is ordered by the President and the NSC. The Agency neither makes decisions on policy nor acts on its own account. It is an instrument of the President ... to use in any way he pleases. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3449
Philip Agee: George Bush's father (George H.W. Bush) came in as C.I.A. director the month following the Welch assassination. As Director he presided over the agency as they mounted a campaign throughout western Europe trying to make me appear to be a security threat, a traitor, a Soviet agent, a Cuban agent. All those sorts of things which led to my expulsion from five different NATO countries in the late 1970s. In fact it was all based on lies, and to think that I was responsible for the death of any C.I.A. people for their exposure is absolutely false. No one, as far as I know, of all those people who were exposed as C.I.A. people along with their operations, was ever even harassed or threatened. What happened was, their operations were disrupted and that was the purpose of what we were doing. We were right to do it then because the U.S. policy at the time, executed by the C.I.A., was to support murderous dictatorships around the world as in Vietnam, as in Greece, as in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil; and that's only to name a few. We opposed that use of the U.S. intelligence service for those dirty operations- and I'm talking about regimes now that tortured and disappeared people by the thousands. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3450
The Godfather: Probably, all the other families will line up against us. That's all right. These things gotta happen every five years or so, ten years. Helps to get rid of the bad blood. Been ten years since the last one. You know, you gotta stop 'em at the beginning, like they shoulda stopped Hitler at Munich. They should never have let him get away with that. They was just asking for big trouble. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3451
Jimmy Carter: AIPAC is not dedicated to peace. They’re dedicated to inducing the maximum support in America, in the White House, in the Congress and in the public media, for whatever policies the Israeli government has at a particular time. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3455
Vladimir Molotov: When we helped Sadat, the Arabs could arm themselves more and resist the imperialists, and now they are forcing the imperialists to bow down in some ways. And the Arabs realized that they had to unite. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3456
Thierry Meyssan: After the economic crisis of 1929, the whole world was convinced, and rightly so, that the capitalism of that time was over. The Soviet Union alone offered an alternative, Bolshevism. Soon the United States came up with a second alternative, the structural reforms of the New Deal, and then Italy promoted a third alternative, fascism. The great Anglo-Saxon capitalists chose to support a new regime, close to fascism, Nazism. They thought that Germany would attack the USSR, thus preserving their interests threatened by both Bolshevik collectivisations and US economic reforms. However, nothing worked out as planned, since Italy, Germany and Japan formed the Axis with their own logic and the war was not started against the Soviets, but against the great fortunes that prepared it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3458
Kim Jong-Un: The single-hearted unity of the army and people around the Party is our strongest weapon and a powerful propellant for building a thriving socialist country. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3459
Rodolfo Walsh: People learned that they were alone and that they had to fight for themselves, that within each one of them they would find the way, the silence, the astuteness and the strength. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3461
Ahmed Sékou Touré: To take part in the African revolution, it is not enough to write a revolutionary song. You must fashion the revolution with the people. And if you fashion it with the people, the songs will come by themselves. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3462
Aaron Swartz: With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge — we'll make it a thing of the past. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3463
Aaron Swartz: Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3464
Aaron Swartz: There is no justice in following unjust laws. It’s time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture. We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Access. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3465
Ho Chi Minh: Individualism is deceitful and insidious; it treacherously pulls one down. And it is always easier to go down than up. This makes individualism especially dangerous. In order to uproot the survivals of the past and foster in ourselves the moral qualities of a true revolutionary we must study, educate ourselves, transform ourselves in order to move on indefatigably. If one does not strive to make progress one will inevitably stop and fall behind. And if one stops and falls behind, the developing society will cast them aside. If one possesses the moral qualities of a revolutionary, they will not become frightened, lose their head or retreat before difficulties and defeats. One will, without hesitation, sacrifice their personal interests for the sake of the common interests of the party, the revolution, the working class, the nation and the whole of humanity. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3467
John F. Kennedy: So let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3468
Rose Pastor Stokes: We workers are invited, by every subtle blandishment, to join with our capitalist Governments in a war of extermination against our fellow workers of Russia. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3470
Rose Pastor Stokes: We may not do the shooting ourselves, but we are no less guilty if their freedom is lost through the guns we make. Longshoremen load the guns on ships, railroad men bring them to the piers, sailors, workers too; carry them over seas, and soldiers, (also workers) receive them and use them to shoot down Bolshevist workers, (but what workers!) fighting in the front trenches of the world in the cause of the Social Revolution that will set the world's workers free! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3471
Rose Pastor Stokes: Industry, agriculture, yes. Bread, security, yes. But Roses, Roses, yes, a thousand times yes! Are we workers hungry for joy and beauty for art and culture? Today, Russia answers for us until the day when we shall answer for ourselves. The worker, starved through the centuries amidst the very plenty he created, is satisfying his hunger at last--in Russia. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3472
Rose Pastor Stokes: The king and queen of Belgium visited the United States. There is a great stir of interest in the ranks of the exploiters. The Opera House here makes a gala night of their visit to that temple of music. The Workers take control of Russia. Their Opera becomes the Soviet Opera. There is a great stir among the common folk. The workers fill the Opera House. It is a gala night. Just as it is natural for Capitalist America to give a special performance at the Metropolitan Opera House in honor of the king and queen--charging incredible prices for seats; so it is natural for Soviet Russia to give Opera daily for the Russian worker--where he is entitled to a seat by virtue of his useful labor. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3473
