Peter Kropotkin Quotes

No doubt it is also necessary to improve the classes who now oppress you, but you will never succeed in doing this unless you begin by improving yourselves.

History teaches us that the great revolutions aren’t started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better—and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.

The Socialist movement is the abolitionist movement of the 20th century.

We are sons of the Mexican Revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking, bread and justice. Our revolution will not be armed, but we want the existing social order to dissolve, we want a new social order.

Nelson Mandela understood that social transformation and economic transformation go hand in hand.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement! The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there any reason to believe we are done?

Education is the motor-force of revolution.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be neither peace, nor hope, nor future for any of us unless we honestly aim at political, social and economic justice for all peoples of the world, great and small.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.

Social change without music would be void of soul. Nonviolence without music, meditation, action, and a willingness to take risks probably doesn't exist.

The revolution... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

We will take up the ball of the Revolution where our fathers stopped it and roll it to the final consummation of freedom and independence for the masses.

Where were the saints to try and change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but do away with slavery?

Organize! Educate! Agitate!

Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them