Protest, Resistance and Revolution

If they [the Republicans] will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Okie use’ ta mean you was from Oklahoma.

You only have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power—he’s free again.

Men of England, wherefore plough

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

When we, the Workers, all demand: ‘What are WE fighting for?’ …

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society; but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

Guns aren’t lawful;

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie … A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

New Presbyter is but old Priest writ large.

But that two-handed engine at the door

The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.

Justice denied in Massachusetts.

The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.

Religion is … the opium of the people.

Get up, stand up

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;