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