Under conditions of Terror, most
People Comply – but Some do Not²
I Hate him that Oppresses me – I will
Either Destroy him, or he shall Release me³
We have to tell ourselves every day who we
Are – or else we Become what they Make us⁴
Despite the Dead Dream – we see a Free Future⁵
Revolting conditions elicit Revolutionary Solutions⁶
Let the Ruling classes Tremble at the Revolution⁷
I’m Wiser than those who don’t understand
The plot – more Courageous than those
Who see it, but keep Silent out of Fear⁸
The only way to deal with an Unfree
World is to be so Free that your very
Existence is an act of Rebellion⁹
Revolutions are Festivals – of
The Exploited & Oppressed¹⁰
¹ Louis Lingg, Trial Speech
² Hannah Arendt tr. original, Eichmann in Jerusalem
³ Walt Whitman, The Sleepers
⁴ Gabrielle Otero, Self-Portrait Despite What They Say
⁵ Nikki Giovanni, They Clapped
⁶ Alan Dugan, Marxist Analysis of the Fifth Labor of Hercules
⁷ Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels tr. original, The Communist Manifesto
⁸ Solon tr. Hicks in Laërtius Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
⁹ Albert Camus, The Rebel
¹⁰ Vladimir Lenin tr. original, Two Tactics of Social Democracy