“Without a People's army, the people have nothing.”

—  Mao Zedong

Chapter 9 https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch09.htm, originally published in On Coalition Government (April 24, 1945), Selected Works, Vol. III, pp. 296-97. <br class="br">Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)

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