Che Guevara: The guerrilla band is the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves. The guerrilla band is not inferior to the army against which it fights simply because it is inferior in firepower. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: The guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: The guerrilla fighter will carry out his action in wild places of small population. Since in these places the struggle of the people for reforms is aimed primarily at changing the social form of land ownership, the guerrilla fighter is an agrarian revolutionary. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: In guerrilla terminology, strategy is understood as the analysis of the objectives to be achieved in the light of the total military situation and the overall ways of reaching these objectives. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: The blows should be continuous. The enemy soldier in a zone of operations ought not to be allowed to sleep; his outposts ought to be attacked and liquidated systematically. At every moment the impression ought to be created that he is completely surrounded. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: American capitalism replaced the old colonial capitalisms. But it knows that this is transitory and that there is no real security for its financial speculations in these new territories. The octopus cannot there apply its suckers firmly. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: The revolution must be carried out with solidarity; this is the great lesson of the French Commune, which fell becaue none of the other centres -- Berlin, Madrid, etc. -- developed great revolutionary movements comparable to the mighty uprising of the Paris proletariat. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Mao Zedong: Comrade Bethune's spirit, his utter devotion to others without any thought of self, was shown in his boundless sense of responsibility in his work and his boundless warm-heartedness towards all comrades and the people. Every Communist must learn from him. We must all learn the spirit of absolute selflessness from him. With this spirit everyone can be very useful to the people. A man's ability may be great or small, but if he has this spirit, he is already nobleminded and pure, a man of moral integrity and above vulgar interests, a man who is of value to the people. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stephen Hawking: We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Paulo Freire: True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the “rejects of life,” to extend their trembling hands. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Paulo Freire: True generosity lies in striving so that these hands—whether of individuals or entire peoples—need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Friedrich Engels: The state, therefore, has not existed from all eternity. There have been societies which have managed without it, which had no notion of the state or state power. At a definite stage of economic development, which necessarily involved the cleavage of society into classes, the state became a necessity because of this cleavage. We are now rapidly approaching a stage in the development of production at which the existence of these classes has not only ceased to be a necessity, but becomes a positive hindrance to production. They will fall as inevitably as they once arose. The state inevitably falls with them. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Chinua Achebe: The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gore Vidal: Now we have a totalitarian government. And the totalitarian government wants to watch everybody, total surveillance of everyone. They listen to the telephone conversations, they look at your credit cards, they look where you travel. We are totally policed. This is contrary to everything in our Constitution. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gore Vidal: The founding fathers were not interested in democracy, in fact, in a country with 3 1/4 million people, which is about what we were at the time of the separation from England, only 700, 000 people could vote-white males of property. So it's never been terribly democratic. ...and they put together a constitution which would protect property for all time. No nonsense about democracy! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gore Vidal: I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gore Vidal: The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Frank Snepp: I am, as an ex-CIA agent, opposed to the disinformation activities in which I was involved. I admit that I was involved, and I think it served no useful purpose. Propagandizing the American public or Congress is not the CIA's job. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: Proletarian parties develop and become strong by purging themselves of opportunists and reformists, social-imperialists and social-chauvinists, social-patriots and social-pacifists. The Party becomes strong by purging itself of opportunist elements. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
António Agostinho da Silva Neto: Our contribution has to be given not only for the liquidation of the colonial system but also for the liquidation of ignorance, disease and primitive forms of social organization. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Curtis LeMay: We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too.... Over a period of three years or so, we killed off - what - twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure? wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Curtis LeMay: There are no innocent civilians. It is their government and you are fighting a people, you are not trying to fight an armed force anymore. So it doesn't bother me so much to be killing the so-called innocent bystanders. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Eugene V. Debs: The working classes are beginning to ask why they who build the houses are in the cold, why they must walk weary and shelterless in the shadow of palaces they have built, but cannot enter. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Leo Amery: On the subject of India, Winston is not quite sane… I didn’t see much difference between his outlook and Hitler’s. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
