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“We deeply admire Martí for his gigantic task, forming a revolutionary consciousness in our nation’s mind.”
Fidel Castro, 1976

“Neither Nations nor men respect anyone who fails to make himself respected.”
Jose Martí, 1853-1895

“Within the revolution, everything; without it, nothing.”
Fidel Castro, 1961

“Our enemy is imperialism, not abstract art.”
Fidel Castro, 1977

“Many of these posters elegantly demonstrate the designer’s ability to reduce abstract concepts to simple images, as evidenced in the representation of anti-imperialism, anticolonialism, or the power of organized resistance.”

“Even if the Yankee imperialist prepare a bloody drama for America, they will not succeed and crushing the peoples struggles, they were only arouse universal hatred against them selves. It’s such a drama also more of the death of their greedy and carnivorous system.”

“Even if the Yankee imperialist prepare a bloody drama for America, they will not succeed and crushing the peoples struggles, they were only arouse universal hatred against them selves. It’s such a drama also more of the death of their greedy and carnivorous system.”

“Divisionism, the product of all kinds of prejudices, false ideas and lies; sectarianism, dogmatism, a lack of broadness and analyzing the role of each social layer, its parties, organizations and leaders, make difficult the necessary unity of action of the democratic progressive forces of our people.”

“Discountng the landlords, who often reside in the cities, the rest of that great mass gains its livelihood working as peons on the haciendas for the most miserable wages, or it works the land under conditions of exploitation which in no matter put the Middle Ages to shame.”

“North American imperialism’s declared policy is sending soldiers to fight the revolutionary movement of any country in Latin America, that is to say, coworkers, students, peasants, Latin American men and women, has no other objective them the continued maintenance of its monopolistic interest in the privileges of the treacherous oligarchies which support it.”

“Domination occurs through a language which, in its plastic social action, creates a second- order, artificial ontology, an illusion of difference, disparity, and, consequently, hierarchy that becomes social reality.”

“Let’s combine the strength of the entire nation and open the door to reunification!”

“Let’s accomplish the Great Leader’s teachings and achieve the reunification of the fatherland!”

“Long live the reunited Korean nation!”

“Kimjongilia, flower of reunification, may you fully bloom!

“Let’s fight for the release of Im Su Kyông, the flower of reunification!”

“Let’s defend it until the end, the Red Banner of the revolution.”

“Let the cowards run. We will defend the Red Flag!”

“Let’s arm ourselves even more thoroughly with the revolutionary thought of the Great Leader!”

“Socialism will certainly prevail!”

“Socialism is invincible!”

“The barrel of a gun is the sward that guarantees the fate of the nation!”

“Youth, in the vanguard of today’s grand march, let’s achieve heroic exploits and miracles!”

“The sovereignty and dignity of the republic are more important than life!”

“There can be no world without Korea!”

“The US is truly an Axis of Evil.”

“Let’s smash US imperialism in a single blow!”

“We expose to the world the bloodcurling atrocities committed by US soldiers against South Korean women!”

“With the united strength of the north and the south, let’s rip US imperialism, the source of all evil, apart!”

“he who provokes us, shall be punished!”

Wittig understands discursive categories like “sex” as abstractions forcibly imposed upon the social field, ones that produce a second- order or reified “reality.”

Wittig understands discursive categories like “sex” as abstractions forcibly imposed upon the social field, ones that produce a second- order or reified “reality.”

“ The October 1994 “US-DPRK Basic Agreement”.... promised the beginning of a process towards the normalization of political and economic relations between the US and North Korea. It also entailed a promise by the US to refrain from making any hostile moves against the DPRK....the “axis of evil” speech and the subsequent unraveling of the 1994 Agreed Framework later that year, led to the second nuclear crisis.”

Consider the further conse- quence that if gender is something that one becomes—but can never be—then gender is itself a kind of becoming or activity, and that gender ought not to be conceived as a noun or a substantial thing or a static cultural marker, but rather as an incessant and repeated action of some sort.

Indeed, if external genitalia were sufficient as a criterion by which to determine or assign sex, then the experimental research into the master gene would hardly be necessary at all.

Is it the awareness of their likeness that conditions the sexual play of the young women in the convent, or is it, rather, the eroticized presence of the law forbidding homosexuality that produces these transgressive pleasures in the compulsory mode of a confessional?

Whether “before” the law as a multiplicitous sexuality or “outside” the law as an unnatural transgression, those positionings are invariably “inside” a discourse which produces sexuality and then conceals that production through a configuring of a courageous and rebellious sexuality “outside” of the text itself.

“Let’s not forget, the grudge over Shinch’ôn!”

“Let’s drive to US imperialists out and reunite the fatherland!”

“Let’s staunchly maintain our anti-imperialist and independent stance.”

“Let’s be iron fists that mercilessly crush the enemies of the revolution!”

“Let’s crush the foreign power and the forces of division through a grand national union.”

“Death to US imperialists, our sworn enemy!”

“Let’s charge forward into the new century in the spirit of the victory in the Arduous March!”

“Long Live May Day! Increased production, economies, provision!!”

“Let’s firmly expand tree-planting into a mass movement and turn the country into a green forest!”

“Let’s actively develop the intellect of our children!”

“Man as the master of his destiny takes center stage in North Korea’s posters. The core of the revolutionary project is to incite citizens to proper conduct, attitudes, or actions.”

Malcolm X understood that the United States was created by and for privileged white men. It was white men who dominated politics, controlled the nation’s wealth, and wrote the rules by which everyone else was forced to live.

This is where black exceptionalism comes in. Highly visible examples of Black success are critical to the maintenance of a racial caste system in the era of colorblindness.

For example, advocates are frequently asked, when will we (finally) become a colorblind society? The pursuit of colorblindness makes people impatient. With courage, we should respond: Hopefully never.

Pleasure beyond the paternal law can be imagined only together with its inevitable impossibility.

Many African Americans today believe that uplift ideology worked in the past and ought to work again - forgetting that ultimately it took a major movement to end the last cast system, not simply good behavior.