William Z. Foster: Like other spokesmen of the people, Lincoln was also the target of the most violent abuse, not the least of this coming from the very capitalist class which he was then leading to overwhelming victory. It is one of the ironies of history that the big capitalists of today, who are the supreme enemies of all democracy, can, although with tongue in cheek, cite the name of this great people’s leader as a champion of their class. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Miguel de Cervantes: He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Miguel de Cervantes: In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Miguel de Cervantes: Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Miguel de Cervantes: The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Miguel de Cervantes: Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Sidney Sheldon: Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Jong-il: Art that moves the people's thoughts and hearts is a powerful weapon of the revolutionary struggle that transforms the world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ted Grant: Not a wheel turns, not a lightbulb shines and not a telephone rings without the kind permission of the working class. But under capitalism, the means of production are the private property of the capitalist class: they own the machinery, the plants and the factories. The workers have no claim either to the instruments or the products of their labour, and they have no choice but to work in order to survive. This entire process is not planned according to social need, but operates anarchically to maximise profit for the capitalists. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Always be on the alert against trotskyism, reformism and revisionism / Soyez toujours en alerte contre le trotskysme, le réformisme et le révisionnisme / Seid immer wachsam gegen Trotzkismus, Reformismus und Revisionismus
William Lloyd Garrison: With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gore Vidal: There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt — until recently … and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
George L. Jackson: The U.S. is the Korean problem, the Vietnamese problem, the problem in the Congo, Angola, Mozambique, the Middle East. It's the grease in the British and Latin Amerikan guns that operate against the masses of common people. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Baruch Spinoza: Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
