Oh, happy Earth! Out of the blood of generations
Life yet will blossom, innocent and wise,
And thou, my planet, shall be cleansed of lamentations,
A jade-green star in the moon-silvered skies.
- Anatoly Lunacharsky


We Communists are all dead men on leave.
- Eugene Levine


If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.
- Che Guevara


If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind,
no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all;
then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions,
our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work,
and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.
- Karl Marx


Over those
whom sleep eternal claimed
that lean, harsh winter
spread a pall
- Vladimir Mayakovsky


Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation,
are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
They want rain without thunder and lightning.
They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters...
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
- Frederick Douglass


I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky
above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations
cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence and enjoy it to the full.
- Leon Trotsky


I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty,
the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless,
heartless robots who protect them and their property.
- Assata Shakur


Tomorrow the revolution will ‘rise up again, clashing its weapons,’
and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!
- Rosa Luxemburg


The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
- Antonio Gramsci


Your comrade, a soldier and General-in-Chief ... was born in a climate and among men for whom liberty
also had charms, and who fought for it first. Sincere lover of liberty and equality, convinced that all
free men are equals, he will be proud to march out before you, to aid you in your efforts,
and the coalition of tyrants will learn that they are loathed equally by men of all colours.
- Thomas-Alexandre Dumas


Educate yourselves because we will need all your intelligence.
Be excited because we will need all your enthusiasm.
Organise because we will need all your strength.
- Ordine Nuovo


The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims.
They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by
the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution.
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.
They have a world to win.
Working Men of All Countries, Unite!
- Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels


The real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and
advance beyond the predatory phase of human development.
- Albert Einstein


And one day we must ask the question, why are there forty million poor people in America?
And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system,
about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy.
And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society.
- Martin Luther King Jr


When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
- Helder Camara