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"Together with a lot of volunteers who were energized by the remote but real possibility that we could win and develop a radically new politics for the city, we worked to canvass every home and apartment in Burlington."

"I believe that revolution can be created in any country by a determined Vanguard."

"I believe that revolution can be created in any country by determined Vanguard."

"This new phase is beginning under the sign of Cuba. And this conference, and what ever special treatment you received, what ever loans are approved, all bear the name of Cuba."

"Even if communist are a danger to 'decent life' it seems like the natural longing for something better, a protest against persistent hunger."

"The Agency's pre-coup destabilization efforts so wildly succeeded that the Iranian government was in its most precarious state in generations. It was anyone's guess when and in what direction the house might now fall. And how that would ultimately affect global balance of power."

"… I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law." Martin Luther King JR.

"Whereas, as a result of outside agitators coming into Alabama to violate our laws and customs..."

"From now on, he said, he considered religion a personal matter. Then he got to the heart of his talk: 1964 would be the year of the ballot… Or the bullet."

"While King was having a dream, the rest of us Negroes are having a nightmare."

Love confronts two enemies, a centrally: safety guaranteed by an insurance policy and the comfort zone limited by regulated pleasures... The world is full of new developments and love must also be something that innovate. Risk and adventure must be re-invented against safety and comfort.

"We can only come to power with the clear and explicit will of the great majority of the proletarian masses."

October 29th, 1918. Wilhemshaven naval base... Delegates are here from every ship. The time has come. It's now or never. Occupied the signaling stations first. Once you have control of the ships, hoist the red flag in the main top. Up for the red dawn of the new day!

"In the revolution, any political class action can arouse in a few hours whole sections of the working class from their passive condition."

"I want to affect people like a clap of thunder... to inflame their minds with the breath of my vision, the strength of my conviction and the power of my expression." Rosa Luxemburg

"Speedup can be prevented from reaching a killing pace only by the action of workers organized for their own ends – as the telling lessons of sweatshop labour make clear."

"The expropriations of the producer is precisely the historical condition for capitalism. Formerly united, means of production and labor-power are now sundered. The capitalist takes possession of the means of production. Without means of production, the director producer has nothing – except labour-power. To survive, the producer must sell his or her labor power for wages, thus becoming a proletarian."

"More happens in M-C-M' than exchange. Moneybags does not simply re-sell the very same commodities he buys. On the contrary, moneybags buys commodities which give rise to new commodities... So Moneybags must be lucky enough to find a special commodity on the market which, once purchased, can be used to generate surplus value." "I speak of human labour power..."

"We forget that labor unions used to be action organizations, that the organizers and leaders were more important than the lawyers and business agents, that the first contracts were one-page documents that the least educated worker could understand and promote and defend."