Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.

Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on a mass scale is necessary, an alteration which can only take place in a practical movement, a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

Men make their own history