“Authority burns with the dull yellow of phosphorus beside the sun of revolution.”
Category: Ricardo Flores Magón
“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.”
“Go over the pages of history, and in them you will find that in armed struggles in which the ruling classes have taken part, your role has always been that of cannon fodder…”
“… it is consoling, on the other hand, to see that the rich Yaqui region in the state of Sonora is under the control of the inhabitants of the area, the courageous, dignified and honorable Indians of the Yaqui tribe.”
“Superior! How can a marionette be superior simply because he drags around a sword and adorns himself with shiny ribbons like a circus clown?”
“These editors are trying to numb the powerful revolutionary energies that exist, and to convert them into an electoral flock.”
“The poor class, by virtue of encountering material wealth hoarded by the rich, is forced to depend on them. If the poor man wants to work the land, he has to rent himself out for a determined price that is called the wage and which represents an abrogated part of what he produces with his arms.”
“The slogan of the revolutionaries is this: The present war is waged for the benefit of the rich. Let us fight to the death here, rather than die in the European trenches.”
“The principle that the government has invoked to drag the people into the abyss could not be more pleasing: that of liberty. “
“In the villages there are no police, and, for the same reason, order reigns in them. There are no rich people, so there is no need for police.”
