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Rosa Luxemburg quotes

Russian Activist March 5, 1870 – January 15, 1919

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Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud. Rosa Luxemburg
Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port. Rosa Luxemburg
Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element. Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg quote: "Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and..."
Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it. Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg quote: "History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best..."
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. Rosa Luxemburg
What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play bal? I have no special corner in my heart for the ghetto: I am at home in the entire world, where there are clouds and birds and human tears. Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg quote: "The working classes in every country only learn to fight in..."
The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles. Rosa Luxemburg
The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands. Rosa Luxemburg
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. Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg quote: "Those who do not move, do not notice their chains."
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. Rosa Luxemburg
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. Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg quote: "Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who..."
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Rosa Luxemburg
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat. Rosa Luxemburg
Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all. Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg quote: "Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters."
Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. Rosa Luxemburg

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