It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

This independent Negro movement is able to intervene with terrific force upon the general social and political life of the nation, despite the fact that it is waged under the banner of democratic rights ... [and] is able to exercise a powerful influence upon the revolutionary proletariat, that it has got a great contribution to make to the development of the proletariat in the United States, and that it is in itself a constituent part of the struggle for socialism.

It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.

Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.