"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

"Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle."
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

"The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too."
— Malcolm X

"My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."
— Malcolm X

"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it."
— Malcolm X (By Any Means Necessary)

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole."
— Malcolm X

"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."
— Malcolm X

"So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise."
— Malcolm X (The Autobiography of Malcolm X)

"Truth is on the side of the oppressed."
— Malcolm X

"If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. "
— Malcolm X

"Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight."
— Malcolm X (The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley)

"How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?"
— Malcolm X

"And because I had been a hustler, I knew better than all whites knew, and better than nearly all of the black 'leaders' knew, that actually the most dangerous black man in America was the ghetto hustler. Why do I say this? The hustler, out there in the ghetto jungles, has less respect for the white power structure than any other Negro in North America. The ghetto hustler is internally restrained by nothing. He has no religion, no concept of morality, no civic responsibility, no fear--nothing. To survive, he is out there constantly preying upon others, probing for any human weakness like a ferret. The ghetto hustler is forever frustrated, restless, and anxious for some 'action'. Whatever he undertakes, he commits himself to it fully, absolutely. What makes the ghetto hustler yet more dangerous is his 'glamour' image to the school-dropout youth in the ghetto.These ghetto teen-agers see the hell caught by their parents struggling to get somewhere, or see that they have given up struggling in the prejudiced, intolerant white man’s world. The ghetto teen-agers make up their own minds they would rather be like the hustlers whom they see dressed ‘sharp’ and flashing money and displaying no respect for anybody or anything. So the ghetto youth become attracted to the hustler worlds of dope, thievery, prostitution, and general crime and immorality."
— Malcolm X (The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley)

"People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book."
— Malcolm X (The Autobiography of Malcolm X)

"You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it."
— Malcolm X

"I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare."
— Malcolm X

""If you're not ready to die for it, take the
word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.""
— Malcolm X

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"The media's the most powerful entity on earth.
They have the power to make the innocent guilty
and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power.
Because they control the minds of the masses.""
— Malcolm X

""Be peaceful, be courteous. Obey the law, respect everyone, but if someone puts his hands on you, SEND HIM TO THE CEMETARY!" "
— Malcolm X

"Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down"
— Malcolm X

"If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again."
— Malcolm X

"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker"
— Malcolm X

"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"
— Albert Einstein

"Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all."
— Adam Smith

"Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-"
— Langston Hughes

"Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism."
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

"Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures."
— Leon Trotsky

"The first duty of a man is to think for himself"
— José Martí

"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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— Leon Trotsky

"But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
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— José Martí

"A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel."
— José Martí

"I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before."
— Michael Collins

"The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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— Oscar Levant

"Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war."
— Norman Mailer

"I have the heart of a small boy...and I keep it in a jar on my desk."
— Stephen King

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
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— - Doug Larson

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living."
— Nicholas Chamfort

"Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking."
— Dave Barry

"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five)

"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."
— Michel de Montaigne

"I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
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— Craig Newmark

"Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative."
— Kurt Vonnegut

"He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave."
— William Drummond

"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
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— Bertrand Russell

"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
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— Honoré de Balzac

"Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement."
— Vladimir Lenin