
Source: What is Property? (1840), Ch. I
Nothing Will Hold Back Our Struggle for Liberation (1979)
Source: What is Property? (1840), Ch. I
Context: A people who have courageously opposed French domination for more than eighty years, a people who have fought side by side with the Allies against the Fascists during these last years, such a people must be free and independent.
For these reasons, we, members of the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, solemnly declare to the world that Vietnam has the right to be a free and independent country and in fact it already has been so. The entire Vietnamese people are determined to mobilise all their physical and mental strength, to sacrifice their lives and property in order to safeguard their independence and liberty.
Vietnamese Proclamation of Independence (2 September 1945), Ho Chi Minh, Selected Works (1960-1962), Vol. 3, pp. 17-21
Socialist Policy and the War in New International p. 200, 1951
“The common people are nothing more than the raw material of which a People is made.”
Dr. Stockmann, Act IV
An Enemy of the People (1882)
“Because free peoples believe in the future, free peoples will own the future.”
2000s, 2005, Address to the National Endowment for Democracy (October 2005)
Source: The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007), p. 14