Leftist Literature Quotes
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"Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will." — Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1929) · #gramsci #philosophy
"A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism." — Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848) · #marx #manifesto
"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." — Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution (1918) · #luxemburg #freedom
"The prison has become a black hole into which the detritus of contemporary capitalism is deposited." — Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003) · #davis #abolition
"Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961) · #fanon #decolonization
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) · #orwell #animal_farm
"The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love." — Che Guevara, Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965) · #che #revolution
"Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!" — Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848) · #marx #manifesto
"We must recognize, and loudly proclaim, that every one, whatever his grade in the old society, whether strong or weak, capable or incapable, has, before everything, THE RIGHT TO LIVE, and that society is bound to share amongst all, without exception, the means of existence it has at its disposal."…
"For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961) · #fanon #decolonization
"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949) · #debeauvoir #feminism
"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." — Emma Goldman, (Attributed) (1900) · #goldman #anarchism