The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.
Interpretation
Speaking out about the truth is a fundamental act of bravery and change.
Rosa Luxemburg's quote emphasizes the power of voice and truth in the face of oppression. By boldly stating what is occurring around us, individuals can challenge the status quo and inspire others to take action, ultimately fostering societal revolution and awareness.
In practice
During a protest rally to remind people of the importance of speaking out against injustice.
Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing.
The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles...Social democracy...is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh. Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.
Freedom for supporters of the government only, for members of one party only no matter how big its membership may be is no freedom at all. Freedom is always freedom for the man who thinks differently.
Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.
The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society.
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
I have immense respect for anyone with a physical deformity and the courage and confidence it takes just to go out in the world.
For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.
The worst insult you can give a professional athlete is to call them soft. And the stereotype out there is that gay is soft.
The experience I learned was that ⦠if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed⦠I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.
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