Charles Wright Mills: Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real. And every revolution must defend itself against this counterrevolution, or the revolution will fail. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Martin Luther King, Jr.: I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
George Washington: If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Mark Zuckerberg: The real revolution happened when people started using the internet to fight corruption and oppression. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Allan Boesak: There was a time when people of the rich nations of the world regarded poverty as a "natural condition" for those living in the poor nations of the world. ... Today we have largely been stripped of this pseudo-innocence. We know that the poor are so poor because the rich are so rich, that the causes of poverty can be traced to deliberate decisions and deliberate economic and political policies designed to benefit the rich and powerful. We know that poverty and unemployment are not just accidents of history but deliberate, even indispensable, components of capitalism as an economic system. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: One of the symptoms of revolution is the sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active interest in politics. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
