UNGOVERN(A)BLE

From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.

— Edgar Allan Poe, “Alone”

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I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don’t think it will be based on the color of the skin.

— Malcolm X

I don’t mind dying but I’d like to have the opportunity to fight back.

— George Jackson

Courage in one hand, assault rifle in the other.

— George Jackson

From now on the struggle between subjectivity and what degrades it will extend the scope of the old class struggle. It revitalizes it and makes it more bitter. The desire to live is a political decision. We do not want a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation is bought by accepting the risk of dying of boredom.

— Raoul Vaneigem

You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.

— Audre Lorde

We must discover new frontiers. People have been standing for centuries before a worm-eaten door, making pinholes in it with increasing ease. The time has come to kick it down, for it is only on the other side that everything begins.

— Raoul Vaneigem

The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.

— Frantz Fanon