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This is the war where we change. This is the trickster war. It's where we disappear, just like they desire us disappear. I spoke it you before: They wish us blank," he said, gesturing without thinking at Dr. Trefusis, who was the nearest exemplar of the white race. "They want us with no history and no memory. They want us empty as paper so they can write on us, so we ain't nothing but a price and an owner's name and a list of tasks. And that's what we'll give them. We'll give them your Nothing. We'll give them my William Williams and Henry Henry. We'll slip through and we'll change to who we must needs be and I will be all sly and have my delightful picaresque japes. But at the end of it, when it's over, I shall be one thing. I shall be one man, fixed, and not have to take no other name. I shall be one person steadily for some years." "This is why we got to win...If we ever wish to be one person, we got to win.


M.T. Anderson


#slaves #change

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.


Ashly Lorenzana


#expression #freedom #individuality #life #norms

Our challenge, as we enter the new millennium, is to deepen the commonalities and the bonds between these tens of millions, while at the same time continuing to address the issues within our local communities by two-sided struggles that not only say "No" to the existing power structure but also empower our constituencies to embrace the power within each of us to crease the world anew.


Grace Lee Boggs


#revolutionary #inspirational

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.


John Updike


#barefoot #being #going #mere #naked

And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.


Katherine Dunn


#female #forces #found #full #groups

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.


Jane Fonda


#being #care #human #human being #people

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.


Alexis de Tocqueville


#battle #chance #crisis #game #life

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.


Lionel Trilling


#generate #humor #impossible #irony #little






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