“We hold the truth itself to be revolutionary and we shall stand firm by its side.” Maurice Bishop

“Conceiving a development project without the participation of women is like using only four fingers when you have ten. It’s an invitation to failure.” Thomas Sankara

"If a white man wants to be your 'ally', what does he think of John Brown? You know what John Brown did? He went to war. He was a white man who went to war against white people to help free slaves." Malcolm X

"The life of a single human being is worth more than all the property of the richest man on earth." Che Guevara

"Nevertheless, at the end of my life I have the certainty that the GDR was not founded in vain. She sent a signal that socialism can be possible and better than capitalism." Erich Honecker

"Military action is a method used to attain a political goal. While military affairs and political affairs are not identical, it is impossible to isolate one from the other." Mao Zedong

“Capitalism is not just an economic system but an entire social order. Once it takes hold, it is not voted out of existence by electing socialists or communists.” Michael Parenti

"Revolution means that the abuses and excesses of the violent, reactionary, and disruptive minority has to be crushed so that a majority interest can prevail." Maurice Bishop

"Complete equality of rights for all nations; the right of nations to self-determination; the unity of the workers of all nations—such is the national program that Marxism [teaches] the workers." V. I. Lenin

"[America is] dominated by the most reactionary and violent ruling class in the history of the world, where the majority of the people just simply cannot understand that they are existing on the misery and discomfort of the world." George Jackson

"Never before has such a sweeping fervor for freedom expressed itself in mass movements which are driving down the bastions of empire. This wind of change blowing through Africa is no ordinary wind. It is a raging hurricane against which the old order cannot stand." Kwame Nkrumah

"The [person] who proclaims devotion to the cause of liberation yet is unable to enter into communion with the people, whom [they] continue to regard as totally ignorant, is grievously self-deceived" Paulo Freire