22 Proletariat Quotes for You to Enjoy

Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times. Fidel Castro

Christ Preach Rich Proletariat He Doctrine Times Poor Workers Ignorant Choose Chose

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. Vladimir Lenin

Struggle Evil Despair Typical Way Proletariat Those Out See Classes Category Industrial Understand Does Causes Modern Incapable Who Belong

We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you'll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you're going to have to keep on saying that. You're going to have to say that I am a proletariat; I am the people. Fred Hampton

Saying You People Words Remember Back Say Proletariat Said Am Leave Lips Revolutionary Going Jail Anywhere Might Keep Last

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat. Rosa Luxemburg

Class Too Proletariat Rising Bourgeois Historical Undoubtedly Domination Against Capital Working Working-Class Socialist Grave Necessity

The very action of the proletariat is a determining factor in history. And although we can no more jump over the stages of historical development than a man can jump over his shadow, nevertheless, we can accelerate or retard that development. Rosa Luxemburg

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist. Friedrich Engels

Freedom Speak Down State Proletariat Possible Soon Adversaries Becomes Exist Ceases Order Hold Interests Uses

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing. Graham Greene

People Same Thing Proletariat About Nobody Talk Terms Governments Same Human Human Beings Should Mugs Beings Why Thing Thinks

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. Rosa Luxemburg

Teacher Best History School Revolution Proletariat Only True True Teacher

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world. Karl Liebknecht

Failure World Will Defeat Proletariat Russian Republic Whole Socialist

Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat. Adrian McKinty

Crime Crime Fiction Proletariat Noir Fiction Literature

The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known. C. L. R. James

Country Proletariat Undergone Known Greatest Upheaval Social Ever Profound

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership. C. L. R. James

Leadership Character Signs Changes Proletariat Put Demands Surest American Being Estimated Forward Found Now Consciousness

It is out of the question that the task of socialist women's activity should be to alienate proletarian women from duties as wives and mothers; on the contrary, it must operate so this task is fulfilled better than before, precisely in the interests of the proletariat. Clara Zetkin

Women Better Before On The Contrary Alienate Proletarian Proletariat Out Must Operate Mothers Wives Question Contrary Than Task Precisely Duties Interests Fulfilled Should Activity Socialist

Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized. Dario Fo

We are the party of the Czechoslovak proletariat and our general headquarters are in Moscow. Klement Gottwald

Party Our Proletariat General Moscow Headquarters

Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it makes this seizure of power both necessary and possible. Rosa Luxemburg

Democracy Political Political Power Power On The Contrary Proletariat Possible Superfluous Both Indispensable Seizure Because Makes Contrary Conquest Necessary

If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not a case of ethics; it is a plain case of necessity. The method by which this may be done is, first, for the American Negro to achieve a new economic solidarity. W. E. B. Du Bois

Time Achieve Ethics First Own Assume Proletariat Solidarity Classes All-Time Case Bear Economic Leading New Method American Uplift Done May Doomed Cannot Which Plain Necessity

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