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Karl Marx2 quotes
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. — Karl Marx · 1848The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. — Karl Marx · 1848Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1 quote
You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power-he's free again. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1968Audre Lorde1 quote
Your silence will not protect you. — Audre Lorde · 1977Cesar Chavez1 quote
You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. — Cesar Chavez · 1984Elie Wiesel1 quote
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. — Elie Wiesel · 1986Friedrich Engels1 quote
Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them…"If you don't like to be frizzled in my frying-pan, you can take a walk into the fire." — Friedrich Engels · 1845George Orwell1 quote
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU. — George Orwell · 1949Hannah Arendt1 quote
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt · 1970Harvey Milk1 quote
It takes no compromising to give people their rights... It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression. — Harvey Milk · 1973Henry David Thoreau1 quote
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable. — Henry David Thoreau · 1848Lydia Maria Child1 quote
We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate. — Lydia Maria Child · 1833Milan Kundera1 quote
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. — Milan Kundera · 1979Steve Biko1 quote
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. — Steve Biko · 1971W.E.B. Du Bois1 quote
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression, even though that cost be blood. — W.E.B. Du Bois · 1909