“A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning and violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!”
- Leon Trotsky
“A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning and violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!”
- Leon Trotsky
“If you have come here to help me, then you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”
- Lila Watson
“A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning and violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!”
- Leon Trotsky
“Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I’ll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I’m not backing off.”
- Fannie Lou Hamer
“If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers.”
- Albert Camus
“Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.”
- Shirley Chisholm
“The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.”
- Helen Keller
“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.”
- Eugene Debs
“Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay.”
- Vladimir Lenin
“Art is a powerful weapon that society, or the powers that be, use to control or direct the way people think. Culture is used to perpetuate the status quo of a society. Even though I’m involved in music for the sake of entertainment, I always hope to offer some kind of enlightenment.”
- Max Roach