“With faith and hope and courage we hold our heads erect and with dauntless spirit marshal the working class for the march from Capitalism to Socialism, from Slavery to Freedom, from Barbarism to Civilization.”
The Socialist Party and the Working Class (1904)
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Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882–1962) Former Chief Minister of West Bengal, India
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Remembering Our Leaders: Mahadeo Govind Ranade by Pravina Bhim Sain
Bobby Sands (1954–1981) Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
Republican News http://larkspirit.com/hungerstrikes/bios/sands.html, (16 December 1978) <br class="br">Other writings <br class="br">Context: I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto, but it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. I shall not settle until I achieve liberation of my country, until Ireland becomes a sovereign, independent socialist republic.
Vladimir Lenin book The State and Revolution
5.4, Essential Works of Lenin (1966)
The State and Revolution (1917)
Arnold Toynbee (1852–1883) British economic historian
Source: Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England (1884), p. 95
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
1930s, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the Swedish Social Democratic Party congress in Stockholm (5 June 1952), quoted in The Times (6 June 1952), p. 5
Leader of the Opposition
“literally: All our misery comes from a deficiency in civil courage.”
Heinz Barwich (1911–1966) German physicist
Unser ganzes Elend kommt vom Mangel an Zivilcourage.
adapted translation: All our suffering comes from a deficiency to stand up for our beliefs.
explaining why he defected the Soviet Bloc, as quoted by Egon Vacek in Die Flucht des Atomforschers, Die Zeit, October 29, 1965, Nr. 44.
“The working-classes require leaders and wise heads from their own body”
Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802) (1802–1871) Scottish publisher and writer
Source: Sanitary Economy (1850), p. 24
Context: The working-classes require leaders and wise heads from their own body—patriarchs, in the old acceptation of the term—to keep them right in moments of excitement. The causes of early death prevent the existence of such a class of men, sobered and wise from experience, in sufficient numbers to discipline the youthful and fiery spirits who, confident in their ignorance, plunge themselves and those depending on their exertions into ruin.
