Author: historyiswhat

“Cursed, a thousand times cursed are the wars of conquest!”

“Far from being behind the times, these Mexican clamourers for land and liberty are in the very forefront of the battle.”

“… I intend to make some more foolish songs, although I realize that the class struggle is a very serious thing.”

“Authority burns with the dull yellow of phosphorus beside the sun of revolution.”

“A world of thoughts, feelings and passions like a hurricane opened up before my mental eye.”

“…the British militarists in Ireland knew well what they were doing — they were killing the two men who were the coolest, the most intelligent, and the most resolute enemies of oppression alive in Ireland.”

“Don’t go to Hell in Order to Give the Capitalists a Bigger Slice of Heaven”

“Our cause is yours: if you remain inactive while your brothers meet death embracing the Red Flag, you will give with your inaction a rude blow to the cause of the proletarian.”

“I who write have been as much to blame as any; let me shake off my blame by stirring you to awaken now.”

“…in our war-drunk age, with the patriotic frothing of the press, the brutality of the vigilantes and the general confusion of our life, Jefferson [prison] may yet prove a preferable retreat.”