Gene Luen Yang Quotes

To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

Revolutions break out when opposite parties, the rich and the poor, are equally balanced, and there is little or nothing between them.

I came to the cities in a time of disorder When hunger ruled. I came among men in a time of uprising And I revolted with them.

All the rivalries of nations have been reduced to this one - a degraded struggle for their share of the spoils of barbarous countries to be used at home for the purpose of increasing the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.

Set in a nameless colonial country, in an unspecified era, Katie Kitamura's second novel tracks the fortunes of a landowning family during the first waves of civil unrest.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

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

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Man has set man against man, Washed against unwashed.

All past history with the exception of the primitive stages was the history of class struggles.

We have two American flags always; one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it, it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it, it means danger, revolution.

The "have nots" outnumber the "haves." No wonder the ruling class of every country grows more and more alarmed.

A repressed minority is an angry one, which may ultimately threaten the government's stability.

Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?

The history of all hither-to-existing society is the history of class struggles.

… in the old days there were one thousand castes and destinies in India. These days, there are just two castes: Men with Big Bellies and Men with Small Bellies. And only two destinies: eat – or get eaten up

Europe is a breeding ground for spontaneous class hatred to be channeled by a skillful agitator.

We have reached a crises in the history of this country when no man, however humble his rank or limited his influence, has a right to stand neutral..

… the struggling masses

Revolution by the have-nots has a way of inducing a moral revelation among the haves.