Miguel de Cervantes: Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5081
Sidney Sheldon: Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5087
Ted Grant: Not a wheel turns, not a lightbulb shines and not a telephone rings without the kind permission of the working class. But under capitalism, the means of production are the private property of the capitalist class: they own the machinery, the plants and the factories. The workers have no claim either to the instruments or the products of their labour, and they have no choice but to work in order to survive. This entire process is not planned according to social need, but operates anarchically to maximise profit for the capitalists. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5089
William Lloyd Garrison: With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5090
Gore Vidal: There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt — until recently … and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5091
George L. Jackson: The U.S. is the Korean problem, the Vietnamese problem, the problem in the Congo, Angola, Mozambique, the Middle East. It's the grease in the British and Latin Amerikan guns that operate against the masses of common people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5092
Bible: I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander(a) of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5094
Bible: I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5095
Bertrand Russell: Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5096
Antonio Machado: in Spain the best is the people. In the hard trances, the ladies invoke the homeland and sell it. The people don't even name her, but she buys her blood and save it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5101
