There is an arc of spontaneous revolts, beautiful in their creative beginnings, which traverses boundaries and borders and creates new solidarities a…

- Nigel Gibson

Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by th…

- Nigel Gibson

What is interesting about the revolts is that they show that there is never anything purely spontaneous, and there is always some thinking and discus…

- Nigel Gibson

The revolts themselves open up something very new. One has to be aware, or listen, or open one's mind to what are the new beginnings.

- Nigel Gibson

Organization has to come from an agreement about principles, rather than just the need to coordinate: so as much as we must all act today in a concer…

- Nigel Gibson

The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds.

- Nigel Gibson

Many of the democratization projects are a real threat to real democracy.

- Nigel Gibson

Violence is the first means and the last resort to pacify a people, and thus is something we need to continue to consider after the gunfire has ended.

- Nigel Gibson

Manicheanism is like a vacuum, it is an either or situation that curtails or destroys the development of liberatory thought.

- Nigel Gibson