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  • #1
    George L. Jackson
    “I've been patient, but where I'm concerned patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.”
    George L. Jackson, Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

  • #2
    George L. Jackson
    “I repeat: realistic, day-to-day needs should be the basis of organizing people and making them conscious of revolution-- that the world, the universe, must revolve-- that it will stop, stagnate, and die for no man's privilege.”
    George L. Jackson, Blood in My Eye

  • #3
    George L. Jackson
    “When a nation can’t admit to the process through which it builds hegemony, how can anything but delusion be a reality?”
    George L. Jackson, Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

  • #4
    George L. Jackson
    “We don’t want to capitalize on people anyway. Capitalism is the enemy. It must be destroyed. There is no other recourse”
    George L. Jackson, Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

  • #5
    Karl Marx
    “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

    [These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
    Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

  • #6
    Karl Marx
    “The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
    Karl Marx

  • #7
    Karl Marx
    “The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
    Karl Marx

  • #8
    Karl Marx
    “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

    Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, that each time ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.”
    Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

  • #9
    Karl Marx
    “Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

    Workingmen of all countries unite!”
    Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

  • #10
    Vladimir Lenin
    “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

  • #11
    Vladimir Lenin
    “Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
    Vladimir Lenin

  • #12
    Vladimir Lenin
    “Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement.”
    Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

  • #13
    Vladimir Lenin
    “Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.”
    Vladimir Lenin

  • #14
    Vladimir Lenin
    “Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.”
    Vladimir Lenin

  • #15
    Vladimir Lenin
    “Sometimes - history needs a push.”
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

  • #16
    Joseph Stalin
    “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
    Joseph Stalin
    tags: vote

  • #17
    Mao Zedong
    “Women hold up half the sky.”
    Mao Zedong

  • #18
    Mao Zedong
    “War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.”
    Mao Zedong

  • #19
    Huey P. Newton
    “The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.”
    Huey P. Newton

  • #20
    Huey P. Newton
    “Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws.”
    Huey P. Newton, To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton

  • #21
    Huey P. Newton
    “That is often the way of the oppressor. He cannot understand the simple fact that people want to be free. So, when a man resists oppression, they pass it off by calling him “crazy” or “insane.”
    Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide

  • #22
    Vladimir Lenin
    “The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.”
    Vladimir Lenin

  • #23
    Kate Millett
    “Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before.”
    Kate Millett, Sexual Politics

  • #24
    Kate Millett
    “Whatever the “real” differences between the sexes may be, we are not likely to know them until the sexes are treated differently, that is alike.”
    Kate Millett, Sexual Politics

  • #25
    bell hooks
    “If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.”
    bell hooks, Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

  • #26
    bell hooks
    “I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.”
    bell hooks



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