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"In
1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000,000 people experienced
nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest
expectations ... If we add all the countries touched by major
nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa
... the independence movement in India ...) the figure reaches
3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth
of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't
work in the 'real' world."
~ Walter Wink (1935 - )
Universal
Declaration of Human Ríghts
Anti-parliamentarianism
Anarchists
actively campaigned against using the Spanish parliament. They
argued that the various Socialist and Communist parties in Spain
would not bring about real change. Anarchists emphasised that only
the workers themselves could do this. Anarchists refused to
participate in the Spanish parliamentary process because they
believed it would divert or even compromise the 'revolutionary'
objective. Anti-parliamentarianism was a major part of the
democracy movement in Spain. About one thing we have no doubts.
Parliament will not bring us the change that we now need.
Parliament is a means of diffusing democracy, of channelling real
struggles into a safe dead-end. Time and time again it has become
a graveyard for the workers' movement. That is a mistake we must
not repeat again.
„Das
Problem revolutionärer Gewalt [ist] der Umschlag von
revolutionärer Gewalt in eine Gewalt, die die Ziele der Gewalt -
die Emanzipation des Menschen, die Schaffung des neuen Menschen -
vergißt.“ ~ Rudi Dutschke (1940-1979)
"Here
in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from
revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from
accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest
dissent with disloyal subversion."
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1890-1969)
Freedom of Speech or New
McCarthyism
~ Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"Sind Sie zufällig der Meinung, dass …es in Deutschland keinen Rassismus gibt? Und falls doch, dass Sie das
nichts angeht? Dass das sowieso nur „die anderen“ betrifft?
Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Sie haben soeben eine rosafarbene
Zipfelmütze gewonnen!" ~ Noah Sow
