67 Quotes About Radicalism

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind ... when he showed that free competition, the struggle for existence, which the economists celebrate as the highest historical achievement, is the normal state of the animal kingdom. Only conscious organization of social production, in which production and distribution are carried on in a planned way, can lift mankind above the rest of the animal.

اكتشفت بأن دولنا مهيكلة لتخلق شعوباً متدينة، من مناهج التعليم وحتى مرافق الحياة الأخرى، ولهذا لا يجب أن نستغرب كل هذا الكم من الانغلاق والتطرف والتعصب، ولا يجب أن نتساءل عن سبب وجود كل هذه التنظيمات الإرهابية في أرجاء المنطقة. فقد كان النظام التعليمي يشل التفكير، ويصح أن يسمى تلقيناً لا أكثر.

It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express concerns 'privately with the administration.' That's just a small sliver of Johnson's radicalism: replacing Feingold in the Senate with Ron Johnson would be a civil liberties travesty analogous to the economic travesty from, say, replacing Bernie Sanders with Lloyd Blankfein.

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse."(History Will Teach Us Nothing)