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“Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.”

Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

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A leader of the Indian independence movement, lawyer, politician, and social activist, Mahatma Gandhi is revered as the 'Father of the Nation'. He advocated for non-violence and unity between Hindus and Muslims, leading the Indian struggle for independence and profoundly influencing history both in India and around the world. more

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“Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.”

Men Persons Self Violence Stage Judging Bravery Defense Every Man Variety Revolutionary Latter Submission Self Defense Cowardly Defenseless Acts Of Bravery

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will have no more to do with it. Instead, they believe with Stirner that man has as much liberty as he is willing to take. Anarchism therefore stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. But defiance and resistance are illegal. Therein lies the salvation of man. Everything illegal necessitates integrity, self-reliance and courage.”

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.”

Ifs Men Stills Action America Black Direct Trade Flesh Revolutionary Brown Comrade Direct Action John Brown

Book:Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our moral code, is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism. Will it not lead to a revolution? Indeed, it will. No real social change has ever come without a revolution. People are either not familiar with their history, or they have not yet learned that revolution is but thought carried into action.”

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison torture and punishment of man by man altogether.”

Men Humans Party Prison Punishment Human Life Revolutionary Torture Anarchist Abolition Capital Punishment

Author:Peter Kropotkin

“At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral to subject our people to armed attacks by the state without offering them some kind of alternative. I mentioned again that people on their own had taken up arms. Violence would begin whether we initiated it or not. Would it not be better to guide this violence ourselves, according to principles where we saved lives by attacking symbols of oppression, and not people? If we did not take the lead now, I said, we would soon be latecomers and followers to a movement we did not control.”

“The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.”

Whole Style Citizens Workers Revolutionary Revival Rifles Proletariat Militia Cannons Ammunition

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)

“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.”

Ifs Should Force Arms Workers Revolutionary Frustrated Pretext Ammunition

Book:Political writings

Source: Political writings

“There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.”

Giving Should Arms Victory Circumstances Giving Up Possession Revolutionary Proletariat

Author:Karl Marx

“During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later than this the Anarchist militia, in spite of their indiscipline, were notoriously the best fighters among the purely Spanish forces.”

Firsts Two War Force Situation Months Saved Fighter Revolutionary Spite Anarchist Two Months Militia

Book:Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London

Source: Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London