"I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what every other oppressed person has advocated-the right to help myself in the absence of help from anywhere else."
Marwan Barghouti

"Zionism is an embodiment of neo-Nazism... intellectual terrorism and racial exploitation."
Yasser Arafat, 1968

"Our new generation is tired of waiting for something to happen. Isn't it better to die bringing down your enemy than to await a slow, miserable death rotting in a tent in the desert?"
Yasser Arafat, 1969

"Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one—himself."
Dhammapada

"...to crush Russia-that America I hate with a deadly hatred. With all the fibres of my being I am with the Russian revolution and with the Russian people in its heroic struggle against the imperialism and conspiracy of the Allied pack at the throat of Russia..."
Emma Goldman, the Liberator 1920 Dec

"Those who call us terrorists wish to prevent world public opinion from discovering the truth about us and from seeing the justice on our faces. They seek to bide the terrorism and tyranny of their acts, and our own posture of self-defence."
Yasser Arafat, Speech to UN General Assembly 1974

"He did not like these people who were like dangerous children; dirty, foul, undisciplined, kind, loving, silly and ignorant but always dangerous because they were armed. He, Andrés, was without politics except that he was for the Republic."...

"We shall never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed… The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises or mediations… the goal of this violence is the elimination of Zionism from Palestine in all its political, economic and military aspects… [...]"

"The difference between the revolutionary and the terrorist lies in the reason for which each fights. For whoever stands by a just cause and fights for the freedom and liberation of his land from the invaders, the settlers and the colonialists cannot possibly be called terrorist, [...]"

"[W]e must work to situate abolition as part of a revolutionary program, to make clear the limits of defunding (or even disbanding) the police, and to make the argument that abolition cannot end with policing, but must extend to the entire criminal legal apparatus"
Kristian Williams 2020 APIaSTEWSaC

"I understand revolutionary discipline as a self-discipline of the individual, established in an acting collective, in an equal manner for all, and strictly worked out. It must be the responsible line of conduct of the members [...] leading to a strict agreement between its practice and its theory."

"His anarchism, [...] claimed to have a scientific foundation. It was 'more than a mere mode of action or a mere conception of a free society'; it was 'part of a philosophy, natural and social', and 'must be treated by the same methods as natural sciences'. [...]"

"'Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization.' You probably already know this but the quote doesn't fit Kropotkin's view of 'the jungle' as he saw mutual aid in the most 'simple' organisms. [...]"

"But men are not those free-minded, independent, provident, loving, and compassionate fellows which we should like to see them. And precisely, therefore, they must not continue living under the present system which permits them to oppress and exploit one another."
Are We Good Enough? Kropotkin 1888

"Remember this, resistance is essence, always resist, always try. Love and solidarity."
Malik Farrad Muhammad, June 11th 2025

"The freedom we want, for ourselves and for others, is not an absolute metaphysical, abstract freedom which in practice is inevitably translated into the oppression of the wealthy; but it is real freedom, possible freedom, which is the conscious community of interests, voluntary solidarity. [...]"

"[...] atheism is at first far from being communism; indeed, that atheism is still mostly an abstraction. The philanthropy of atheism is therefore at first only philosophical, abstract philanthropy, and that of communism is at once real and directly bent on action."
Karl Marx, Manuscripts of 1844

"the revolutionary tide is receding and we are falling back into evolutionary periods – periods during which barely perceptible revolutions gradually germinate... The time for revolution has passed not only because of the disastrous events of which we have been the victims [...]"