The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.

All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

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

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.