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For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the peasants would soon be on their side.


Herman Gorter


#before #certain #during #eyes #knew

The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and all the world over. But the workers in Western Europe stand alone: this should never be forgotten in Russia.


Herman Gorter


#always #borne #europe #forgotten #help

To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!


Herman Gorter


#assemblies #break #communist #europe #even

I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.


Ahmed Ben Bella


#algeria #am #born #came #city

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.


Eugene Chadbourne


#bridges #building #died #folk #folk songs

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.


Al Lewis


#center #garment #her #immigrant #life

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.


Maurice Sendak


#old #old world #parents #peasants #were

And then there was pain and blood and tears, all those things that cause suffering and revolt, the killing of Françoise, the killing of Fouan, vice triumphing, and the stinking, bloodthirsty peasants, vermin who disgrace and exploit the earth. But can you really know? Just as the frost that burns the crops, the hail that chops them down, the thunderstorms which batter them are all perhaps necessary, maybe blood and tears are needed to keep the world going. And how important is human misery when weighed against the mighty mechanism of the stars and the sun? What does God care for us? We earn our bread only by dint of a cruel struggle, day in, day out. And only the earth is immortal, the Great Mother from whom we spring and to whom we return, love of whom can drive us to crime and through whom life is perpetually preserved for her own inscrutable ends, in which even our wretched degraded nature has its part to play.


Émile Zola


#peasants #terre #vice #love

The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.


Herman Gorter


#conditions #different #here #often #peasant

The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants.


Herman Gorter


#after #development #due #easy #long