“Events in Persia have moved with a rapidity which has startled political commentators.”
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“But nowadays human suffering does not count unless it is related in secret documents.”
“In the 20s, like many young Chinese intellectuals of his day, he went to Paris to study, and it was there partly out of homesickness, as he tells it, that he wrote his first novel Destruction”
“Would they not be obliged then to say clearly and distinctly that the present war is a war between two groups of predators equally inimical to freedom?”
“Have those who now extol Chiang Kai-Shek as a great democrat looked at his record? Have they forgotten that his merciless slaughter of the revolutionary Chinese workers had earned for him the title of ‘Butcher of the Chinese Revolution’?”
“Before the invasions and occupations, which lasted approximately three months, there were no Federal, State, County, or City funds available for services to Native Americans in Seattle.”
“The great mass of the people have neither home nor country to love or defend.”
“The workers of Europe have been misled into a fever of nationalism, which led them to outbursts of antagonism toward other countries.”
“Is it possible that Mr. McAfee has never taken the trouble to study the anarchist theoreticians?”
“There are still people who believe that a so-called democratic government will wage a war against fascism.”
“The machine age of industrial civilization didn’t help to liberate Man. On the contrary, it succeeded to enslave him.”
“It is a mere colony ruled over by British exploiters and rulers.”
“…colonialism and war, the building blocks used to construct the theory of revolutionary defeatism, are very much still with us.”
“A couple of years before they were executed, the Chicago anarchists had honoured some of the social rebels martyred before them, including Louis Riel, a leader of the Métis people.”
“Asked if she [Agnes Lamont] supported the American Indian Movement even after the death of her son, she replied, ‘I’m with them all the way now.'”
“Yet, England has in Palestine a base for expansion into Asia Minor and will not give up its policy of protection for Zionism.”
“Believers in the State, including the liberals, claim that this institution has as its chief aim the protection of human life and welfare. How true is such a claim?”
“Because fascism in Tunisia is a prelude to the fascist movement that our bourgeoisie will unleash against all workers, metropolitans included.”
“The capitalist system is to be saved at all costs. The nazis and fascists of all sorts will be tolerated, but subdued and controlled by the democratic powers.”
“Our comrades are daily killed; many take the road of the exile; many are chained; others are at the forests; all are menaced with the want of bread.”
“Teachers in schools, professors in colleges and students alike are being ousted from the ‘temples of learning’. Legislative bodies in State after State are enacting ordinances which doom any expression of free thought to total extinction.”
“The whole Italian situation has led up to the dictatorship, has determined the different phases of Fascism. To believe that all that has been the product of the will and the intelligence of one man is infantile.”
