Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.
I can be a subversive element.
Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.
If you throw one stone, it’s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it’s political action. If you set a car on fire, it’s a punishable offence. If hundreds of cars are set on fire, it’s political action. Protest is when I say I don’t agree with something. Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place.
If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.
These are the strategic dialectics of anti-imperialist struggle: through the defensive reactions of the system, the escalation of counterrevolution, the transformation of the political martial law into military martial law, the enemy betrays himself, becomes visible.
[I provoke] the system [to] show its true face. . . so that through its own acts of terrorism. . . the masses will rise against it.
This week Bill Clinton tweeted a photo of himself reading George W. Bush's new book '41. ' Then George W. Bush responded to that post on Instagram. Then John McCain said 'You two are hilarious' by telegraph.
What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!
What are you reading for?
The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.