...it is not good to submit patiently to wrong, or to rest contented under misfortune. I urge that it is... nobler far to wage war against wrong, better far to carefully investigate the causes of wrong and misfortune, with a view to their removal. Contentment under wrong is a crime, voluntary submission under oppression is not the virtue some would have it to be.
It was one of those extraordinary outbursts, so frequent in the Middle Ages, which still occur among masses of human beings under the stress of some primeval emotion. (From: Chapter 17: The Guns of Montmarte, Page 273..)
The slave who prefers death to a continuance of his slavery cannot be called a slave any longer, and if his example be followed by his fellows there is an end of servitude. (From: Section 7: The Creaghe-Morris Polemic, Page 16..)
I am not permitted to rest on my laurels. I am again called upon to jump in the breach of rescuing our comrades. (From: Chapter 7: Anarchists, Violence, and War, Pages 24....)
I sense some evil coming for you all, who sit here in Odysseus' house tormenting and oppressing other people. Not one of you will get away. (From: Book 20: The Last Banquet, Page 458..)
If you don't accuse colonialism, if you don't side with the colonial peoples, how can you make revolution? (From: Chapter 2: The Fiery Stallion, Page 63..)
...power always tries to keep things as they are, safely anchored to stereotypes. That has been the reason for all revolutions in history. Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of social life into the straitjacket of its rules. Its intellectual expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force.
