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Ernesto Cardenal1 quote
While classes exist no one is free.
We are not born to be slaves or to be masters.
We are born to be brothers and sisters.
What is capitalism but buying and selling of people? — Ernesto Cardenal · 1972Frederick Douglass1 quote
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. — Frederick Douglass · 1857Noam Chomsky1 quote
I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom. — Noam Chomsky · 1995Percy Bysshe Shelley1 quote
Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,
A mechanized automation. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1813Thucydides1 quote
You know as well as we do that right, as the word goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. — Thucydides · 404 BC