Louis T. McFadden: The Federal Reserve banks are one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this nation is run by the International bankers. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Thomas Jefferson: If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered... I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: Why do some people have to go barefoot so that others can drive luxury cars? Why do some people have to be miserably poor in order that others can be extravagantly rich? I speak for all the children in the world who don't even have a piece of bread! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: Do not be afraid to lose; to gain something you have to lose something. And remember; you are defeated not when you lose, but when you quit. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Bible: Your Majesty looked, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay. While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ray Bradbury: So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man? wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: Labour is not the only source of material wealth, ie of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Mao Zedong: Far from being a minor issue, the struggle against this revisionist line is an issue of prime importance having a vital bearing on the destiny and future of our party and date, on the future complexion of our party and date, and on the world revolution. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Xi Jinping: According to Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, communism will eradicate the opposition and differentiation between classes, between urban and rural areas, between mental labor and physical labor; it will adopt the principle of distribution from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs, so as to achieve shared development of society and the free and well-rounded development of individuals in the real sense. Of course, there will be a long trek through history to reach this goal. China is still in the primary stage of socialism and will long remain so. Therefore, we cannot do what is premature, but this does not mean we should do nothing in realizing shared prosperity step by step. Instead, we should start to do what is appropriate to the current conditions, accumulating small successes and moving towards prosperity for all. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Andrei Zhdanov: A riot of mysticism, religious mania and pornography is characteristic of the decline and decay of bourgeois culture. The 'celebrities' of that bourgeois literature which has sold its pen to capital are today thieves, detectives, prostitutes, pimps and gangsters. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Malcolm X: They attack the victim, and then the criminal who attacked the victim accuses the victim of attacking him. This is American justice. This is American democracy and those of you who are familiar with it know that in America democracy is hypocrisy. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ho Chi Minh: Only in a socialist system are the interests of the individual, the state and the collective at one. That is why only a socialist constitution can encourage the citizens to fulfill enthusiastically their duties to the society and the fatherland. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Charu Majumdar: The slogan—"Kashmir is an inalienable part of India"—is given by the ruling class in the interest of plundering. No Marxist can support this slogan. It is an essential duty of the Marxists to accept the right of self-determination by every nationality. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Harry Braverman: A class cannot exist in society without in some degree manifesting a consciousness of itself as a group with common problems, interests and prospects. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Paul Robeson: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ho Chi Minh: The American government and its allies are the real terrorists in the world today. They use their military power to invade, occupy, and destroy other countries, and to impose their will on the people. We will not bow down to their tyranny, we will stand up and fight for our rights and our dignity as a people. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Muammar Gaddafi: They will create the viruses themselves and sell you the antidotes. Thereafter, they will pretend to take time to find the solution when they already have it. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Friedrich Engels: (T)he abolition of private property is the shortest and most significant way to characterize the revolution in the whole social order which has been made necessary by the development of industry; it is rightly advanced by communists as their main demand. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Erich Honecker: Study Marxism-Leninism, learn from history, take the revolutionary experiences of the generations before you, and follow their path with your own steps. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: Officers and men of the Red Army! We are entering the country of the enemy. The remaining population in the liberated areas, regardless of whether they’re German, Czech, or Polish, shouldn’t be subjected to violence! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: The right of self-determination means that a nation may arrange its life in the way it wishes...It has the right to enter into federal relations with other nations. It has the right to complete secession. Nations are sovereign, and all nations have equal rights. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
