William Randolph Hearst: Whatever is right can be achieved through the irresistible power of awakened and informed public opinion. Our object, therefore, is not to enquire whether a thing can be done, but whether it ought to be done, to so exert the forces of publicity that public opinion will compel it be done. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3267
Friedrich Engels: No nation will put up with production conducted by trusts, with so barefaced an exploitation of the community by a small band of dividend-mongers. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3268
Lenin: The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk dictated by monarchist Germany, and the subsequent much more brutal and despicable Treaty of Versailles dictated by the “democratic” republics of America and France and also by “free” Britain, have rendered a most useful service to humanity by exposing both imperialism’s hired coolies of the pen and petty- bourgeois reactionaries who, although they call themselves pacifists and socialists, sang praises to “Wilsonism”, and insisted that peace and reforms were possible under imperialism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3269
Lenin: The tens of millions of dead and maimed left by the war—a war to decide whether the British or German group of financial plunderers is to receive the most booty—and those two “peace treaties”, are with unprecedented rapidity opening the eyes of the millions and tens of millions of people who are downtrodden, oppressed, deceived and duped by the bourgeoisie. Thus, out of the universal ruin caused by the war a world-wide revolutionary crisis is arising which, however prolonged and arduous its stages may be, cannot end otherwise than in a proletarian revolution and in its victory. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3270
Frantz Fanon: Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3272
Barbara Anna Kistler: The revolution and revolutionaries have no homeland, they continue their struggle wherever they want. I am an international revolutionary, I defend the brotherhood and unity of the oppressed peoples of the world. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3273
Paulo Freire: Violence is initiated by those who oppress, who exploit, who fail to recognize others as persons—not by those who are oppressed, exploited, and unrecognized. It is not the unloved who initiate disaffection, but those who cannot love because they love only themselves. It is not the helpless, subject to terror, who initiate terror, but the violent, who with their power create the concrete situation which begets the “rejects of life.” It is not the tyrannized who initiate despotism, but the tyrants. It is not the despised who initiate hatred, but those who despise. It is not those whose humanity is denied them who negate humankind, but those who denied that humanity (thus negating their own as well). Force is used not by those who have become weak under the preponderance of the strong, but by the strong who have emasculated them. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3274
Ilan Pappé: Colonialism can be described as the movement of Europeans to different parts of the world, creating new “white” nations where indigenous people had once had their own kingdoms. These nations could only be created if the settlers employed two logics: the logic of elimination— getting rid by all means possible of the indigenous people, including by genocide; and the logic of dehumanization—regarding the non-Europeans as inferior and thus as not deserving the same rights as the settlers. In South Africa these twin logics led to the creation of the Apartheid system, founded officially in 1948, the same year that the Zionist movement translated the same logics into an ethnic cleansing operation in Palestine. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3276
Alexandre Dumas: Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3285
Alexandre Dumas: Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3288
Alexandre Dumas: When the devil gets mixed up in human affairs to ruin an existence or disrupt an Empire, it is very strange that some wretch is not immediately within his reach, to whom there is only a word to be whispered in his ear to get him back on track. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3292
Henry David Thoreau: Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3293
