"Religion is the opium of the people." — Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1844) · #marx #religion

"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas." — Karl Marx, The German Ideology (1846) · #marx #ideology

"No animal shall sleep in a bed." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) · #orwell #animal_farm

"Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will." — Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1929) · #gramsci #philosophy

"A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism." — Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848) · #marx #manifesto

"Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa, intended to subjugate its growth and development through foreign rules." — Thomas Sankara, Speech at the OAU Summit (1987) · #sankara #debt

"No animal shall kill any other animal." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) · #orwell #animal_farm

"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." — Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution (1918) · #luxemburg #freedom

"The overthrow of mother-right was the world historical defeat of the female sex." — Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) · #engels #feminism

"Big Brother is watching you." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949) · #orwell #1984

"Four legs good, two legs bad." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) · #orwell #animal_farm

"The prison has become a black hole into which the detritus of contemporary capitalism is deposited." — Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003) · #davis #abolition

"Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961) · #fanon #decolonization

"Who controls the past controls the future." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949) · #orwell #1984

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) · #orwell #animal_farm

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." — Mao Zedong, Problems of War and Strategy (1938) · #mao #power

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949) · #orwell #1984

"The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love." — Che Guevara, Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965) · #che #revolution

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!" — Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program (1875) · #marx #gotha

"Patriarchy has no gender." — bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984) · #hooks #feminism

"The state is not 'abolished,' it withers away." — Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring (1878) · #engels #state

"Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!" — Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848) · #marx #manifesto

"We must recognize, and loudly proclaim, that every one, whatever his grade in the old society, whether strong or weak, capable or incapable, has, before everything, THE RIGHT TO LIVE, and that society is bound to share amongst all, without exception, the means of existence it has at its disposal."…

"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." — Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1930) · #gramsci #crisis

"For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961) · #fanon #decolonization

"Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement." — V. I. Lenin, What Is to Be Done? (1902) · #lenin #theory

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949) · #debeauvoir #feminism

"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." — Emma Goldman, (Attributed) (1900) · #goldman #anarchism

"Freedom is a constant struggle." — Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (2016) · #davis #freedom

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949) · #orwell #1984

"The body has been for women in capitalist society what the factory has been for male waged workers: the primary site of their exploitation and resistance." — Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch (2004) · #federici #feminism

"The very notion of the domination of nature by man stems from the very real domination of human by human." — Murray Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom (1982) · #bookchin #ecology

"Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism." — V. I. Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916) · #lenin #imperialism

"No animal shall drink alcohol." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) · #orwell #animal_farm

"The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains." — Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848) · #marx #manifesto

"The state is a special organization of force: it is an organization of violence for the suppression of some class." — V. I. Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917) · #lenin #state

"The African economy is integrated into the very structure of the developed countries' economies; and it is integrated in a manner that is unfavorable to Africa and ensures that Africa is dependent on the big capitalist countries." — Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) · #rodney

"If there is hope, it lies in the proles." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949) · #orwell #1984

"Religion is the opium of the people." — Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1844) · #marx #religion

"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas." — Karl Marx, The German Ideology (1846) · #marx #ideology

"No animal shall sleep in a bed." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) · #orwell #animal_farm

"Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will." — Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1929) · #gramsci #philosophy

"A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism." — Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848) · #marx #manifesto

"Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa, intended to subjugate its growth and development through foreign rules." — Thomas Sankara, Speech at the OAU Summit (1987) · #sankara #debt

"No animal shall kill any other animal." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) · #orwell #animal_farm

"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." — Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution (1918) · #luxemburg #freedom

"The overthrow of mother-right was the world historical defeat of the female sex." — Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) · #engels #feminism

"Big Brother is watching you." — George Orwell, 1984 (1949) · #orwell #1984

"Four legs good, two legs bad." — George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945) · #orwell #animal_farm

"The prison has become a black hole into which the detritus of contemporary capitalism is deposited." — Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003) · #davis #abolition