#masses

The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#development #leaders #masses #own #process

The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses. ↗

— George Oppen

#away #carefully #etc #left #masses

But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice ↗

— Ayn Rand

#groupthink #masses #men

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#free #got #hell #i #know

It can not be done; it shall not be done! I speak for the great masses of the Mississippi Valley, and those west of it, when I say you shall not do it! ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#great #great masses #i #masses #mississippi

I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#i #i think #leaders #masses #past

Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#freedom #includes #justice #masses #peace

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#democracy #democratization #east #how #in other words

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. ↗

— Peter Kropotkin

#beneficial #could #customs #enforced #even

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#big #elephants #even #hotels #killed