Politics Quotes
Power, governance, and the messy business of organizing human societies.
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"We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports."Mao Zedong
"Liberalism is extremely harmful to the revolution."Mao Zedong
"The basis for African socialism is our heritage of communal living."Julius Nyerere
"The highest standards of morality are required in politics."Julius Nyerere
"The foundation of any nation is its people, not its borders."Julius Nyerere
"A true patriot loves his country enough to seek its improvement."Julius Nyerere
"To be an intellectual revolutionary is impossible without being a revolutionary."Fidel Castro
"Nations without nationalism are merely geographical entities."Fidel Castro
"A state that depends on force alone is already in its death throes."Fidel Castro
"I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am a revolutionary."Che Guevara
"We must do away with all newspapers. They are suffocating the people."Che Guevara
"In a society where the working class is in power, culture belongs to the people."Leon Trotsky
"The revolution has no frontiers."Leon Trotsky
"The revolution is betrayed when the revolutionary party becomes a bureaucratic apparatus."Leon Trotsky
"Without international revolution, socialism in one country is impossible."Leon Trotsky
"Politics is the arena where all struggles ultimately converge."Leon Trotsky
"Political change begins with a change in consciousness."Leon Trotsky
"Political courage is the willingness to face opposition for principle."Leon Trotsky
"Seek ye first the political kingdom and all things shall be added unto you."Kwame Nkrumah
"Our revolution is not for the comfort of the elite but for the masses."Kwame Nkrumah
"The struggle doesn't end with national independence. It begins there."Ho Chi Minh
"Independence is worthless if we do not build a just society."Ho Chi Minh
"National independence means nothing without social equality."Ho Chi Minh
"We reject imperialism in all its forms and guises."Ho Chi Minh
"People of the world, unite and defeat the US aggressors and all their running dogs!"Mao Zedong
"The duty of every revolutionary is to make the revolution."Fidel Castro
"Capitalism has never existed in Cuba. Before we had colonialism, then imperialism, and now we have socialism."Fidel Castro
"The foundation of any independent government is a national language, and we shall always look upon language as the corner-stone of nationalism."Jomo Kenyatta
"We have always found the open door of the British Government to be a very helpful one."Jomo Kenyatta
"A government that rules through fear does not rule, it merely occupies."Julius Nyerere