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We shall show you, bolsheviks, how to make a revolution.

— Buenaventura Durruti

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It is possible that only a hundred of us will survive, but with that hundred we shall enter Saragossa, beat Fascism and proclaim libertarian communism.

Don't you see why I'll continue fighting as long as these social injustices exist?

I have been an Anarchist all my life. I hope I have remained one.

When the bourgeoisie sees power slipping from its grasp, it has recourse to fascism to maintain itself.

Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain (1963)

I believe, as I always have, in freedom. The freedom which rests on the sense of responsibility. I consider discipline indispensable, but it must be inner discipline, motivated by a common purpose and a strong feeling of comradeship.

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I have no doubt that the revolution will triumph. The people of the world will prevail, seize power, seize the means of production, wipe out racism, capitalism.

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Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.

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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

John F. Kennedy

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