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“And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara

“The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.”
― Che Guevara

“There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“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

“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
― 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

“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary”
― Karl Marx

“Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“What does Karl Marx put on his pasta? Communist Manipesto!”
― Steven Colbert

“Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.”
― Karl Marx

“Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
― Malcom X, Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power

“You can't have capitalism without racism.”
― Malcom X

“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing”
― Malcom X

“I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.”
― Malcom X

“I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.”
― Malcom X

“If you walk through life and don't help anybody, you haven't had much of a life”
― Fred Hampton

“You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.”
― Fred Hampton

“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.”
― Fred Hampton

“First you have free breakfasts, then you have free medical care, then you have free bus rides, and soon you have FREEDOM!”
― Fred Hampton

“I  have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.” - Assata Shakur”
― EC Randolph, the Little Book of Big Quotes: Fred Hampton & Assata Shakur

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

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

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

“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, The State and Revolution

“Three keys to success: read, read, read.”
― 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

“Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.”
― Vladimir I lenin

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
― Dom Helder Camara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings